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Dinosaurs
What happens when you find a dinosaur?
If you know what you’re looking at, little bits of bone can add up to something big.
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Collections
Travelling 2.5 billion years back in time on the search for the UK's oldest rock
Our scientists are looking for a rock that formed so long ago it was on Earth before complex life lived on land.
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Behind the Science: Chawatat pursues elusive Southeast Asian bumblebees
Thai PhD student Chawatat investigates the hidden lives of Southeast Asian bumblebees.
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News
DNA floating in the air can be used to identify nearby animals
Animals can be detected from hundreds of metres away, just by the presence of their DNA in the air.
6 January 2022 -
Science news
Huge Jurassic seabed uncovered in Cotswolds quarry
Palaeontologists have uncovered thousands of perfectly preserved Jurassic fossils in a sleepy area of the Cotswolds.
21 July 2021 -
Science news
Two new species of worm salamanders described from the Andes
One species is known only from a single specimen in the Museum's collection.
18 December 2020 -
Oceans
Exploring animal life on a hydrothermal vent
As well as intriguing vent animals, the team got to see humpback whales breaching in the bay.
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Dinosaurs
A shepherd stumbles across sleeping giants in a dinosaur graveyard
This is thought to be one of the most significant dinosaur sites ever found in South Africa.
23 June 2020 -
Dinosaurs
Tiny teeth are revealing the true diversity of British dinosaurs
A far greater variety of dinosaurs lived here than we realised.
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Dinosaurs
Would you make a good dinosaur hunter?
Find out how well you'd get along on a dino dig to search for famous Jurassic dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus.
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Dinosaurs
What is it like to go on a dino dig?
Explore an interactive story about Museum experts' adventure to Wyoming, USA, when they went off-grid in search of Jurassic dinosaurs.
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News
A 12,000-year-old swamp full of dodo bones has been found
An ancient swamp full of fossils from extinct animals was discovered in Mauritius.
12 September 2019 -
Dinosaurs
How to find dinosaur fossils
Discover how palaeontologists find and dig up prehistoric reptiles.
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Dinosaurs
Mission Jurassic dino dig quiz
Have a go at our quiz about Museum palaeontologists' recent adventures on the Mission Jurassic dig.
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News
Quest begins to sequence genomes of all UK life
Insects from Merseyside were some of the first animals studied in a new project.
18 July 2019 -
Dinosaurs
How to become a palaeontologist
Dr Susie Maidment shares what it's like to be a dinosaur researcher, how she got into this career and advice for budding palaeontologists.
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Dinosaurs
Meet the Museum's dinosaur hunters
Get to know the Museum scientists working on the latest dinosaur discoveries.
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News
New arrivals of Amazonian moss animals boost the world's largest collection
The Museum now has the largest collection of freshwater bryozoa in the world.
23 May 2019 -
Collections
Ida Slater: a geologist ahead of her time
Discover the important contributions made by one of London's first woman geologists.
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Science news
An expedition to the uninhabited island harbouring 38 million pieces of plastic
It has the highest density of plastic in the world.
19 August 2020 -
Science news
Termites help protect rainforests from climate change
The small but mighty insects buffer the forests against drought.
11 January 2019 -
Dinosaurs
How did Baryonyx change what we knew about spinosaurs?
Although spinosaurs were named in 1915, little was known about these giants until a 31-centimetre-long claw was discovered in the UK in 1983.
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Collections
Specimen stores and lights at night
Find out what can happen when fieldwork doesn't go exactly as planned, and how to do a simple DIY science project at home.
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Patrick Campbell on being young and black in science
When Patrick started caring for the Museum's fish specimens, he became one of the institution's first black curators.
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Science news
Beautiful new species of swallowtail butterfly discovered on Fiji
Scientists are still unsure where the species came from.
2 November 2018 -
Science news
New species of blind eel that burrows through the soil discovered
The fish burrows underground and breaths through the lining of its mouth.
17 September 2018 -
News
Fossils of extinct dwarf emu destroyed by golf course
Dwarf emus were driven to extinction by humans. Now their remains are at risk too.
7 September 2018 -
Anthropocene
The chicks choking on a toxic diet of ocean plastic
Birds that live on Lord Howe Island are facing death by ocean plastic.
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Collections
HMS Endeavour 250
Discover rarely displayed illustrations and specimens from Captain Cook's first voyage.
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Collections
Endeavour art collection highlighted on Royal Mail stamps
Royal Mail has just launched Captain Cook stamps starring the Museum's collections.
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News
The secrets of frog vision are finally being revealed
Museum scientists are travelling the globe to understand how frogs see the world.
6 August 2018 -
Space
The search for life on Mars
To help us tell fact from science fiction, scientists and engineers involved in the ExoMars 2020 program discuss the latest on the search for life on Mars.
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Anthropocene
New deep-sea species discovered in Pacific conservation zones
Researchers have discovered several new animal species living on the Pacific seafloor.
17 July 2018 -
Oceans
Explore a 360 panorama of Antarctica
Join Dr Adrian Glover as he journeys to the site of a collapsed Antarctic ice shelf. Experience the awe-inspiring view from the ship deck.
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Anthropocene
Blue-green algae from legendary Captain Scott expedition help study of climate change
This discovery will allow scientists to look at the effects of climate change on blue-green algae and their toxins in Antarctica.
5 April 2018 -
Collections
The incomparable tale of Evelyn Cheesman
The adventures of a tenacious female explorer brought to life by comic artist Sammy Borras.
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News
Why the Coral Triangle is the most important part of the ocean
It's the most diverse part of the ocean, but plenty of people have never heard of it.
28 March 2018 -
Biodiversity
Life in the ice wilderness
Hear from researcher Dr Anne Jungblut as she explores the abundance of life in the glaciers of South Georgia.
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Oceans
Orla Doherty on science in the sea and Blue Planet 2
An expert in underwater filming, Orla Doherty is one of the lucky few to have explored the deepest parts of the ocean.
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Oceans
A lifetime on the bottom of the sea
What is it like to stand on the ocean floor? What do you learn from a lifetime spent in the heart of the sea?
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News
Museum and Gates Foundation to fight neglected tropical diseases
The Museum and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have launched a $27 million (£19 million) partnership to demonstrate the feasibility of eliminating intestinal worms, which infect more than 1.45 billion people.
25 January 2016 -
News
Life thrives in ice-covered Antarctic lake
Braving ice-cold water pays off for research team who discover diverse microbial life flourishing at the bottom of an Antarctic lake.
14 November 2015 -
Biodiversity
Isles of Scilly field trip: collecting specimens, measuring change
Museum scientists travelled to the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, to collect fresh specimens to improve our collections.
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News
Evolution pioneer’s illegible notebook brought back to life
Hyperspectral imaging allows us to read for the first time one of Alfred Russel Wallace's notebooks that was ruined in a shipwreck.
20 November 2014 -
News
Letter from 1909 could solve missing fish riddle
Document found in Museum's archive suggests the river blenny was wiped out on Cyprus.
26 March 2014