“It really is the highest form of respect to be given to any scientist,” says Madeline Hutchins of her great-great-grand-aunt Ellen Hutchins, who had a number of plants named after her.

The unusually intact fossilised skull of a giant, bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago was found on Peru’s arid southern coast, researchers said.

At least five people have been hospitalised following the collapse of a stairwell at the Natural History Museum on in Dublin city centre this morning.