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Science news
Ocean plastic is changing the blood chemistry of seabirds
What this means for their future is still not known.
29 July 2019 -
Science news
The quest for one of the world's oldest bumblebees
Genes of an elusive Tibetan bumblebee can finally be sequenced.
26 July 2019 -
Science news
Australian flies found in London
Scale parasite flies, of a new fly family for Britain, have been found in the Museum's Wildlife Garden.
24 July 2019 -
Biodiversity
Big Butterfly Count: Chris Packham on how to save British butterflies
Turning the tide of biodiversity loss is a big job.
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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 -
Science news
A new look at the Gibraltar Neanderthals
Discover more about some iconic Neanderthal skulls.
15 July 2019 -
Science news
Modern humans may have been in Europe 150,000 years earlier than thought
New dating suggests they were in southern Greece 210,000 years ago.
10 July 2019 -
News
A series of Mary Anning films are about to hit the cinemas
Pioneering woman palaeontologist to hit cinema screens soon.
4 July 2019 -
Science news
This is how the ancestor of modern snakes could have looked
What can we learn from scanning snakes?
3 July 2019