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.

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction. But despite its fame, astonishingly little is known about this large, flightless bird. Scientists are attempting to ...

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

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. A groundbreaking international study has ...

Crisps and mash owe their existence to a series of precise events that took place nine million years ago. That is the startling finding of a new study that has found that potatoes are the result of an ...