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

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 ...

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

Specialisms: Botanical collections, Island biogeography, Macaronesia, plant systematics, Acanthaceae, I am Principal Curator in Charge of the Algae, Fungi and Plants Division, managing the team ...

Discover what you can see and do in our free galleries, and where you can eat, drink and shop across the Museum. Whether you're visiting us for the first time or the fiftieth, these self-guided tours ...

With frigid temperatures and ferocious winds, our solar system's outermost planet may be last but it's certainly not least. Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of ...

The geographic, stratigraphic and historical coverage of the seven million vertebrate, invertebrate and plant fossils in the Museum's palaeontology collection make it globally important. Our ...

Edited by Dr. Andrew B. Smith & Dr. Andreas Kroh, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria ...

Ever wanted to know what a bullet ant sting feels like, without putting yourself through the pain? Wondering what’s worse, the sting of a fire ant or warrior wasp? You’ve come to the right place.

Whales are accomplished divers. The deepest whale dive recorded so far was made by a Cuvier's beaked whale. A 2014 study used satellite-linked tags to follow the dives of eight beaked whales off the ...

Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...