2019

You can't protect what you don't know. 

These snails are losing their eyes. CT scanning is uncovering why.

Real-time genetic sequencing could help save lives. 

We are gambling with the only world we have, say researchers.

The footprints were made when an ancient amphibian walked across a river delta. 

Herbivorous dinosaurs kept evolving the same traits.

As the crabs die, they release a signal attracting other crabs causing a gruesome chain reaction.  

The meteorite formed as our solar system was being born. 

The carnivores walked on four legs and looked like modern-day Komodo dragons.

The project will give new insights into many aspects of the UK's wildlife. 

There is a warning of 'untold suffering' unless we act now.

You are never too small to make a difference.

Female specimens are under represented in collections.

These are the best ever images of True's beaked whale. 

An image of a Tibetan fox hunting a marmot won this year's Grand Title.

Her Royal Highness met Museum staff who are working to protect UK wildlife.

This is only the second humpback whale in the Thames for over 100 years. 

The nation's plants and animals are dwindling.

The beetles were collected more than 150 years ago.

The two-year project will help conserve rare plants and invertebrates.

Analysis of centipede venom reveals a huge difference between the groups.

A species of wormlike marine invertebrate has been uncovered.

The frogs have been in the Museum collection since 1852.

An ancient swamp full of fossils from extinct animals was discovered in Mauritius.

Dugongs help fight climate change by protecting seagrass meadows.

Explore this year's exhibition images. 

A year after the devastating blaze in Rio de Janeiro, hope lives on.

Wildfires are ripping through the Amazon rainforest at an unprecedented rate. 

A new species of stegosaurian dinosaur, Adratiklit boulahfa, has been described.

A usually inaccessible dinosaur will be available to researchers around the world.

The new species highlight how much more there still is to learn about India's herpetofauna. 

Wherever humans have gone, pigs have followed.

Find out why our conservators worked on Britain's most famous panda.

It is thought to have lived 200 million years ago.

How did potatoes come to Europe and how did they adapt to a new environment?

What this means for their future is still not known. 

Genes of an elusive Tibetan bumblebee can finally be sequenced.  

Scale parasite flies, of a new fly family for Britain, have been found in the Museum's Wildlife Garden.

Turning the tide of biodiversity loss is a big job.

Insects from Merseyside were some of the first animals studied in a new project.

Discover more about some iconic Neanderthal skulls.

New dating suggests they were in southern Greece 210,000 years ago. 

Pioneering woman palaeontologist to hit cinema screens soon.

What can we learn from scanning snakes?

Past global warming events took place 183 million years ago. 

To meet UK electric car targets for 2050, we would need just under twice the current annual world cobalt production. 

Dr Andy Purvis, coordinating lead author of the IPBES Global Assessment, answers the big questions about the report. 

Both penguin and seal DNA could be identified from within sponges.

The Museum now has the largest collection of freshwater bryozoa in the world.

The ancient shark was found in an unusual fossil ecosystem.

Northern elephant seals once teetered on the brink of extinction. Now they are bouncing back.

We've been looking at the wrong species. 

This is fastest recorded timeline of a bird losing its ability to fly.

It has been named after Gollum due to its underground lifestyle. 

It is illegal to harm beavers or destroy their lodges and dams.

Just how much of a threat is the harlequin to the UK’s native ladybirds?

The introduction of farming across the world changed the course of human history.

It has been named Homo luzonensis.

It is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun, and it is 55 million light years away.

It has the highest density of plastic in the world.

It is the oldest quadrupedal whale from the Americas.

It has been 230 years since they were declared extinct in England.

It's one of the oldest datasets of its kind.

The team will help uncover dinosaur fossils and footprints in Wyoming. 

Driven to extinction in the 1950s, very little is know about this species. 

Despite breeding on remote islands, petrels are being poisoned by lead. 

Found in Indonesia, the bee lives inside termite mounds. 

A new paper is shedding light on the relationship between a bird's diet and how it looks.

The Cambrian explosion is one of the most important intervals in the history of life.

Three separate rabbit populations all evolved immunity to the disease.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited the Museum to watch a performance of The Wider Earth.

Crashing numbers will have serious implications on our future.

A display showcasing Queen Alexandra birdwing butterfly specimens is open at the Museum at Tring.

The biggest threat to marine life in Britain isn't plastic bottles - it's fishing gear.

Supermarket chain Morrisons has announced an eight-week trial of 20p paper bags.

The new amoeba species is the earliest of its kind ever discovered.

This velvet spider group was thought to live only in Africa and the Middle East.

George's death is a reminder that snail populations are crashing all over the world.

A volume of historical bird illustrations has joined the Museum collections.

The small but mighty insects buffer the forests against drought.

An immersive experience will bring dinosaurs to life using the latest mixed-reality technology.

The number of microorganisms linked with llama droppings gives clues about the Inca.

These are the first images from the surface of the far side of the Moon.

More grey seal pups are being born on British coastlines than ever.