Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) today released its members visitor figures for the year 2024, revealing that whilst the typical attraction in London saw a 3% increase in visitors ...

Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

In seabirds, the evidence is clearer. Nanoplastics have been linked with organ damage in sable shearwaters and are known to ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

Find answers to your big nature questions. Delve into stories about our research, scientists and the collections we care for. Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the ...

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 ...

The museum’s mineral preparation laboratory prepares specimens from the collections for further analysis with SEM, geochemical and optical description ...

We offer an extensive programme of events for visitors, school groups, museum professionals and academics at the Museum in South Kensington. Browse our activities, special events and temporary ...

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

Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ...