The Natural History Museum and Marine Conservation Society are once again calling on people across the UK to head to the coast and take part in the Big Seaweed Search - a nationwide citizen science ...

First 1,000 schools in England take students outside to participate in global biodiversity research We use cookies to give you the best online experience. We use them to improve our website and ...

There are two species of seahorse in the British Isles – the short-snouted seahorse and the spiny seahorse. Both species are ...

While animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion, in a period known as the Ediacaran, they’ve been hard to study as they rarely fossilise. Generally, the only reminders of these animals are trace ...

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

Garden snails and aphids are venomous animals. This is the startling outcome of a new study that argues for a radical shift ...

Explore the full story of the Natural History Museum's largest specimen, the colossal blue whale skeleton.

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Take our quiz to find out what dinosaur you're most like - could it be the terrifying T. rex of the placid Plateosaurus?

Titanosaurs were the biggest dinosaurs in the world The biggest dinosaurs of all were titanosaurs. They were one of the last surviving groups of sauropods when the asteroid that caused the non-avian ...

Explore dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory.