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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

My research focuses primarily on the palaeobiology of the ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaurs. I work on the systematics and taxonomy of all major ornithischian clades, and have current research ...

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

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