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UK wildlife needs your help
A new report, The State of Nature, warns that 60% of UK species are in decline, but it also highlights how conservation efforts can make a difference.
Discover how you can help to monitor and protect the UK’s wildlife, explore UK biodiversity, and visit the RSPB's website to read the report findings.
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Follow Museum scientists as they carry out fieldwork around the world, look behind the scenes at the life of a Museum curator, or ask experts for help identifying insects, fossils and more.
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Human evolution
Explore the origins of our own species, Homo sapiens, and investigate how different we are from our early human relatives.
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Too late for some - recent extinctions
The last ever Tasmanian wolf, or thylacine, died in 1936. Find out how humans contributed to its demise and other recent extinctions.
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Mass extinctions
Find out about the big five mass extinction events that each wiped out over half of all species alive at the time.
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Dino Directory
Which dinosaurs lived in Britain and the rest of the world? Check out our guide to over 300 dinosaurs organised by body shape, country, time or using the A-Z.
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Museum treasures
Uncover the fascinating stories behind some of the most exceptional objects and specimens in the Museum collections.
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Nature news
Wet weather helped human culture grow
Some of the earliest signs of modern human culture from about 70,000 years ago are linked to periods where the climate changed rapidly to wetter conditions, scientists report.
(Image © Christopher Henshilwood)
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Join Museum botanist Fred Rumsey as he goes in search of wildlife on a sunny spring day at Warley Place nature reserve in Essex.
