Latest news
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Book reveals 300 years of natural history art - 20/11/2009
Art of Nature is a new Natural History Museum book by Judith Magee.
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Darwin’s mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery - 18/11/2009
New research could help protect the future of a rare mockingbird in the Galapagos Islands.
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Fate of reefs depends on Copenhagen summit - 17/11/2009
Coral reefs could be condemned to extinction at next month’s Copenhagen climate summit, warns Pavan Sukhdev of the UN Environment Programme.
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Museum magazine evolves - 16/11/2009
Who has a brain the size of a pea? Who needs to label 100,000 butterflies? Why would you deliberately hunt viruses?
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How much is nature worth? - 13/11/2009
£1 billion? £100 billion? £1 trillion? Pavan Sukhdev discusses at this year’s Annual Science Lecture at the Museum on Monday.
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Social network tool for natural history science - 10/11/2009
Museum scientists create social networking tool called Scratchpads.
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Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory - 05/11/2009
An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground.
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T.rex's oldest ancestor identified - 04/11/2009
A near-complete 165-million-year-old dinosaur skull in the Museum’s collection is identified.
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Woo a worm at society launch event - 30/10/2009
Woo a worm in London’s Hyde Park this Saturday at the launch of the Earthworm Society of Britain.
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Smallest dinosaur in North America uncovered - 22/10/2009
A new species of pigeon-sized dinosaur is the smallest ever found in North America.
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