British wildlife

Earthworms: humble underground heroes

Emma Sherlock, Curator of Free-living Worms at the Museum, explains why we should love earthworms more.

Find out what you could unearth in your garden and how to entice your new friends to the surface.

British wildlife

Find out about the plants and animals that make the UK home.

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Collections

Sharing the Museum collection, one butterfly at a time

Digitising our collection is leading to breakthroughs in our understanding of the natural world.

British wildlife

Finding love on the web

Spiders may seem scary, but most of them are just looking for love. Read some dating profiles of spiders searching for the perfect mate.

Biodiversity

Isles of Scilly: collecting specimens, measuring change

Museum scientists travelled to the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, to collect fresh specimens to improve our collections.

Anthropocene

Tracking and predicting biodiversity damage

A major study provides the first global view of biodiversity damage since the 1500s and suggests how losses can be reversed.

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