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

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

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 got an ancient hybridisation event in the foothills of the Andes to thank for the humble spud. That is the remarkable new finding from a team of researchers who have finally figured out the ...