The Natural History Museum is excited to announce the launch of its latest podcast series, The ‘Perfect’ Specimen, a fresh and irreverent take on the natural world, hosted by Museum zoologist Dr ...

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Imagine yourself back to the time of the dinosaurs. What would you see? We've created a scavenger hunt that will help bring that time to life for you and your family.

Revealing life under water, whether portraying a particular marine or freshwater environment, focusing on the behavior of an animal or placing it within the context of a specific underwater location, ...

A family programme in action, delivered as part of our partnership with the LEGO Group's Build the Change programme, August 2023. We are so grateful for the continued support of our Patrons throughout ...

Revealing the most interesting or memorable behaviour of any of the multitude of smaller animals without backbones – whether on land, in the air, or in water. Georgina Steytler (Australia) observes a ...

Our new exhibition Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? will take you on an interstellar adventure like no other. Rocketing you from Earth’s most extreme environments out into space in the search for ...

A hunter dating back more than half a billion years has been discovered in Canada. Mosura fentoni was a trailblazer for modern arthropods, developing adaptations that some crustaceans and arachnids re ...

Koala numbers have fallen drastically over the last 100 years due to hunting and habitat loss. A comparison between modern koala genomes and historical specimens has shown a decrease in their genetic ...

Some of the world’s largest glaciers may take hundreds, if not thousands, of years to regrow if global temperatures breach 1.5ºC of warming. Unless urgent action is taken to limit emissions, glacier ...

Early relatives of reptiles might have walked the Earth much earlier than realised. Amniote tracks uncovered in Australia have been dated to 356 million years ago – suggesting that the timeline of ...

Our scientists are leading the way when it comes to looking for nature-based solutions for a more sustainable planet, but they can’t do this alone. As part of Fixing Our Broken Planet’s national ...