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NEWS

Mary Anning Rocks: the campaign for a statue of the palaeontologist in Lyme Regis

6 December 2018

A campaign group have attracted national attention for their quest to get her permanently commemorated. 

SCIENCE NEWS

Towns and cities benefit the same animals and plants everywhere

5 December 2018

Rats and pigeons are thriving, but unique species are disappearing.

NEWS

Vote for your favourite image: the Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice Award

5 December 2018

Preview the 25 images in the running to win this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice Award.

NEWS

Bee declines: is banning pesticides the solution?

29 November 2018

Experts argue that changing the way we use land could help bees even more.

NEWS

Vote for your favourite image: the Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice Award

5 December 2018

Preview the 25 images in the running to win this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice Award.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: blood-loving birds of the Galápagos

22 October 2018

When resources run short, the sharp-beaked finches of Wolf Island turn into vampires to survive.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: the uncertain future of China's primates

16 October 2018

Some species have fewer than 30 individuals left alive.

NEWS

Winning images announced for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018

16 October 2018

An image of two golden snub-nosed monkeys won this year's Grand Title.

NEWS

BepiColombo sends back its first images from space

24 October 2018

The probe will help reveal some of the secrets about Mercury.

NEWS

Hayabusa2 lands two rovers on asteroid Ryugu

24 September 2018

The rovers have captured the first ever images from the surface of an asteroid.

SPACE

Types of meteorites

24 September 2018

Falling from the sky in a blaze of glory, meteorites certainly know how to make an entrance, and the stories they tell span the history of our solar system.

NEWS

Net to catch space debris around Earth is successfully deployed

20 September 2018

Scientists are trying to clean up the tens of thousands of pieces of junk in space.

Steller's sea cow: the first historical extinction of marine mammal at human hands

30 November 2018

Unusually for a modern mammal, we know little of it from a true natural history perspective.

COLLECTIONS

Attenborosaurus: a celebrity reptile

27 November 2018

This long-necked skeleton is Attenborosaurus, an extinct marine reptile named after legendary broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.

NEWS

Darwin's giant ground sloth skull pieced together and scanned for the first time

23 November 2018

Half of the skull was lost for over a century. 

COLLECTIONS

What was Megatherium?

22 November 2018

Darwin collected fossils of these ancient giant sloths when he visited South America. 

NEWS

Mary Anning Rocks: the campaign for a statue of the palaeontologist in Lyme Regis

6 December 2018

A campaign group have attracted national attention for their quest to get her permanently commemorated. 

SCIENCE NEWS

Towns and cities benefit the same animals and plants everywhere

5 December 2018

Rats and pigeons are thriving, but unique species are disappearing.

NEWS

Vote for your favourite image: the Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice Award

5 December 2018

Preview the 25 images in the running to win this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice Award.

DINOSAURS

Can you find dinosaurs in Ireland?

5 December 2018

Why have so few dinosaur fossils been found in Ireland? It's all to do with the island's geological history.

Steller's sea cow: the first historical extinction of marine mammal at human hands

30 November 2018

Unusually for a modern mammal, we know little of it from a true natural history perspective.

HUMAN EVOLUTION

Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy's species

29 November 2018

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human relatives thanks to an extraordinary fossil called Lucy.

NEWS

Bee declines: is banning pesticides the solution?

29 November 2018

Experts argue that changing the way we use land could help bees even more.

COLLECTIONS

Attenborosaurus: a celebrity reptile

27 November 2018

This long-necked skeleton is Attenborosaurus, an extinct marine reptile named after legendary broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.

SCIENCE NEWS

The Siberian unicorn lived at the same time as modern humans

26 November 2018

It likely went extinct at around the same time as Neanderthals.

Night life: how to spot insects in the dark

23 November 2018

What nocturnal insects will you find where you live?

NEWS

Darwin's giant ground sloth skull pieced together and scanned for the first time

23 November 2018

Half of the skull was lost for over a century. 

COLLECTIONS

What was Megatherium?

22 November 2018

Darwin collected fossils of these ancient giant sloths when he visited South America. 

NEWS

Sperm whale found with flip flops stuck in its belly

21 November 2018

A sperm whale has washed up in Indonesia with nearly six kilogrammes of plastic in its digestive system.

The glimmering world of glow-worms

20 November 2018

Discover the bioluminescent beetles putting on night-time light shows in Britain.

SCIENCE NEWS

Four new species of frog from one of the wettest regions on Earth

20 November 2018

These horned frogs are named for their pointy eyebrows.

OCEANS

Why would a worm live with its enemy?

19 November 2018

Deep in the ocean a species of worm is living life on the edge, making its home inside an animal that could eat it.

COLLECTIONS

Spiders, cetaceans and skeletons

14 November 2018

Museum experts catch us up on some of the latest natural history news.

SCIENCE NEWS

Ancient DNA reveals the origins of the bizarre Jamaican monkey

13 November 2018

Small primates were sailing the high seas long before humans existed.

SCIENCE NEWS

Whale earwax reveals just how much human activity can stress out marine mammals

12 November 2018

Whales had more cortisol in their bodies while the global whaling industry was at its peak.

NEWS

Chimpanzees are at risk of being eaten into extinction

9 November 2018

Hunting for meat is now a serious threat to the species' survival.

DINOSAURS

Iguanodon: the teeth that led to a dinosaur discovery

8 November 2018

Discover how sparkling roadside rocks paved the way for everything we know about Iguanodon.

Patrick Campbell on being young and black in science

7 November 2018

When Patrick started caring for the Museum's fish specimens, he became one of the institution's first black curators.

COLLECTIONS

The Museum at wartime

5 November 2018

During the Second World War a number of galleries in the Museum were commandeered by British spy networks. Explore the secret wartime history of the Museum, in photographs.

OCEANS

Giant isopods: curious crustaceans on the ocean floor

2 November 2018

A curator unravels the mystery of the woodlouse's gargantuan deep-sea cousin.