The Natural History Museum today celebrates construction commencing at its new state-of-the-art collections, research and digitisation centre.

New research has looked at the impact of higher ocean temperatures of Prochlorococcus, a bacteria which carries out as much ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is back, celebrating the most extraordinary life with which we share this planet while ...

Amid the soaring peaks and meandering rivers of Tràng An, Vietnam, a 12,000-year-old skeleton was recently found buried in a ...

To confirm this really was a Middle Jurassic stegosaur, finding where the bones originally came from was vital. There were no vertebrate palaeontologists in Morocco at the time, so Susannah began ...

Whilst in the newly transformed gardens, Their Royal Highnesses joined some of the students for outdoor learning activities.

Together, the evolution of thumbnails and claws might have helped rodents to eat different foods and enter new environments, from climbing trees to digging underground. This adaptability has allowed ...

Delve into stories about the Museum's collections, scientists and research. Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the largest mammals.

Despite the impression that there’s not much living at the planet’s poles, they support hugely productive waters. This is why, for example, many species of whales will migrate to the colder waters to ...

Today, research published in Nature reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before any other ankylosaur, as well as a unique bony collar ringed with metre-long ...

The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

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