Taforalt cave, also called Grotte des Pigeons, is a globally important site. It contains the graves of over 30 ancient humans ...

Marmoretta is a stem lepidosaur, an early relative of the group containing all lizards and snakes as well as an unusual ...

Over his life, Charles Darwin rose to become one of the most famous scientists in the world.

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species ...

In his long life, the noted physician, scientist and collector Sir Hans Sloane amassed one of the greatest collections of plants, animals, antiquities, coins and many other objects of his time. Sloane ...

The Museum’s digitisation team has undertaken a year-long project to digitise the giant butterfly-moths, also known as the Castniidae collection. Digitiser Glory Turnbull shares more.

Visitors to the Natural History Museum, London, can now get up close to a rare, crystallised gold specimen, nicknamed the Dragon due to its spectacular appearance. Considered to be one of the finest ...

This 5-lesson course, suitable for KS2 classes and co-created with the LEGO Group, explores how humans impact the planet, using the example of birds. Watch short clips of Greta Thunberg, Museum ...

[23 April 2025, London UK] – The Natural History Museum has today announced a brand-new immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough, opening to audiences on 19 June 2025.

The herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant. The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated in Europe at the time of ...

Research focuses on the evolutionary history of arthropods and the systematics of Chilopoda (centipedes). I am interested in the integration of morphological data for extant animals, information from ...

Our project partner in Thailand is Somsak Panha, who leads the Mollusca Research Group in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Somsak heads a dynamic team ...