This overgrazing by deer and other herbivores has held back the recovery of woodlands, peatlands and heathlands across the ...

From today, visitors to London’s Natural History Museum can get up close to the Xenomorph egg from FX’s highly anticipated upcoming series, Alien: Earth. Visitors and fans alike can bear witness to ...

Scientists are retracing the journeys of century-old Antarctic expeditions to discover how the Earth has changed.

A human species arrived on the island of Sulawesi in southeast Asia more than 800,000 years earlier than previously known.

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

“We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from.” The paper describing the hybridisation event has been published in the journal Cell. Domestic potatoes are incredibly diverse, but it ...

Since their transformation and reopening in July 2024, the Natural History Museum’s gardens have welcomed over five million visitors i n just 12 months, cementing their place as one of central ...

The potato came from a chance natural interbreeding event between the ancestors of today’s tomatoes and those of a closely related group called Etuberosum.

The presence of other dinosaur footprints among the ceratopsians has led researchers to believe that these trackways could show the first evidence of mixed-species herding behaviour in dinosaurs. This ...

Ichthyosaurs may have been able to hide their approach from their prey. A newly studied fossil reveals that Temnodontosaurus’s flippers had unique adaptations to reduce noise underwater not seen ...

Starfish are some of the most recognisable animals in the world. But their simple appearance belies an evolutionary mystery - how did these animals evolve such an unusual shape? A new fossil discovery ...

A hunter dating back more than half a billion years has been discovered in Canada. Mosura fentoni was a trailblazer for modern arthropods, developing adaptations that some crustaceans and arachnids re ...