Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction.

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.

“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 presence of other dinosaur footprints among the ceratopsians has led researchers to believe that these trackways could ...

The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

The crest of Mirasaura was made of 16 feather-like structures that together formed a fan longer than the animal’s torso. Out of the numerous fossils unearthed, the longest crest is 15 centimetres long ...

This year we’re celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of our world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

Are humans made of stardust? Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up our bodies. Planetary scientist and stardust ...

But in some regions of the deep sea the silty bottom is strewn with what, at first glance, look like potato-sized rocks. First discovered in the nineteenth century, these strange objects are known as ...