Blooming Marvellous is an exhibition opening at the Natural History Museum at Tring today 24 May 2013, which reveals 400 years of botanical art that helped scientists learn about plants.

Some of the earliest signs of modern human culture found in South Africa are linked to periods where the climate changed rapidly to wetter conditions, scientists including those at the Natural History Museum report in Nature Communications today, May 2013.

The Natural History Museum won Best of the Best at the Museums and Heritage Awards last night, 16 May 2013.

Fatal chytrid amphibian fungus found in caecilians for the first time by scientists at the Natural History Museum, May 2013.

Help scientists find out how badly affected the trees are in your area by taking part in the OPAL tree health survey, a partner of which is the Natural History Museum, launched today 9 May 2013.

Tinkerbella nana, a new species of fairyfly, sounds like something from a fairytale, but it is a new species and genus of fairyfly, the group of tiny parasitic wasps, collected by Natural History Museum scientist John Noyes, Apr 2013.

Natural History Museum scientists, including Caroline Smith and Farah Ahmed, are finding the best way to study meteorites and samples returned from Mars and CT scans are proving very valuable, Apr 2013.

A striking double-eyed owl butterfly has emerged at the Natural History Museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition, Apr 2013

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge is to be Patron of the Natural History Museum, announced today, 19 April 2013.

The world premiere of Sebastião Salgado’s photographic exhibition Genesis opens today at the Natural History Museum, London. See over 200 spectacular black and white photographs by the world-leading photographer.