Enjoy unrivalled views of the Museum’s famous architecture, browse our selection of incredible specimens in the Cabinet of Curiosities, and see copies of Mary Anning's original sketches and letters on ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is active from late December 2024 to early January 2025. It will peak on 3–4 January. Read on for tips on how to catch the best view of this stunning shower from planetary ...

Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named ...

Our species mated with the Neanderthals much later than thought. New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens ...

A previously unknown rock type at the future landing site of the European Space Agency’s new Mars rover is revealing more about the red planet. The rock is believed to have come from an ancient ...

Tyrannosaurs once roamed what is now the southern coast of England. Fossil teeth uncovered in East Sussex have provided the first evidence of these dinosaurs in this region from the Early Cretaceous ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

Making Sun prints is a fun activity that can turn leaves and flowers into simple but distinctive artworks. They can make a great addition to a nature journal. You can make an easy Sun print without ...

There are a number of species of beetle in the UK that will attack natural fibres such as wool, silk, fur, feathers and skins. It is the immature larvae forms that cause the damage, rather than the ...

The mid Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian) saw dramatic environmental change. Globally, it was a period of warming and sea level rise. In northern Europe this time period marked the change from ...

In the absence of light, some animals have developed clever strategies to ensure their survival. For all animals, there are three common necessities of life: finding food, finding a mate and avoiding ...