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Palaeontologists have uncovered thousands of perfectly preserved Jurassic fossils in a sleepy area of the Cotswolds. 

In recent years there has a growing shift to change the common English names of birds that are offensive or inaccurate.

The beavers were reintroduced just a year and a half ago. 

The Natural History Museum is announcing today the relocation of 27 million specimens, around a third of its overall collection, to a new science and digitisation centre at Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. 

As you're taxiing to the runway, spare a thought for what the impact of your flight might be.

Mammoth ivory is appearing from melting permafrost and joining international markets.

The mountain chicken is teetering on the brink of extinction, but we may now have a way to save them.

Around the world sprawling towns and cities offer homes to millions of people, and while they may look like man-made spaces, there is nature in between the cracks.

Around the world sprawling towns and cities offer homes to millions of people, and while they may look like man-made spaces, there is nature in between the cracks.

In a conservation success story, gharials are slowly coming back to the rivers of India and Nepal - but sand extraction practices threaten their long-term survival. 

As a pack of wolves treads its usual route across the Apuan Alps in Italy, Wildlife Photographer Lorenzo Shoubridge shines a light on the region's marble industry.

Wildlife photographer and entomologist Dr Piotr Naskrecki introduces the peculiar insects that spend their entire lives clinging to bats for dear life.

The mountain chicken is teetering on the brink of extinction, but we may now have a way to save them.

Turn your kitchen food scraps into fantastic fertilizer by making a wormery.

Find out what eDNA is and how it can be used for conservation. 

Growing native wildflowers helps provide the right food for pollinating insects, making life better for your local wildlife.

Pollination is not just the work of honeybees. Meet some of the buzzing, bold and beautiful insects carrying out this critical task.

As you're taxiing to the runway, spare a thought for what the impact of your flight might be.

Palaeontologists have uncovered thousands of perfectly preserved Jurassic fossils in a sleepy area of the Cotswolds. 

In recent years there has a growing shift to change the common English names of birds that are offensive or inaccurate.

Mammoth ivory is appearing from melting permafrost and joining international markets.

The beavers were reintroduced just a year and a half ago. 

The mountain chicken is teetering on the brink of extinction, but we may now have a way to save them.

The Natural History Museum is announcing today the relocation of 27 million specimens, around a third of its overall collection, to a new science and digitisation centre at Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. 

These real-life triffids aren't picky eaters.

Understanding the extraordinary diversity and differences between insects can help us figure out how these species evolved.

London is a particular stronghold of these magnificent, rare beetles. Discover why, where else they live and how you can help protect them.

£3.2 million will go towards revamping green space around the Museum

Gould's field mouse, a small rodent native to Australia, is not extinct as previously thought. It is alive and well living under a different name.

Around the world sprawling towns and cities offer homes to millions of people, and while they may look like man-made spaces, there is nature in between the cracks.

A huge skull found in China represents a new sister lineage for Homo sapiens.

Turn your kitchen food scraps into fantastic fertilizer by making a wormery.

In a titanic effort spanning many years, a team of butterfly experts have listed the butterflies found in Colombia to date.

The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Museum to hear how the Urban Nature Project will inspire the next generation to care for the nature that surrounds them. 

Meet the delightfully fuzzy wasps with an arsenal of defences that make them nearly impervious to attacks by hungry predators.

Over the past few hundreds of thousands of years Sicily was home to two different miniature elephants.

Wildlife crime is a huge business. Join us on a global tour as uncover its dark underbelly.

Name that tune! Learn how to recognise the songs and calls of the UK's most common park and garden birds.

In a conservation success story, gharials are slowly coming back to the rivers of India and Nepal - but sand extraction practices threaten their long-term survival. 

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the conservation work undertaken for the Fantastic Beasts™: The Wonder of Nature exhibition.