June

£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.

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

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. 

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

It is the only known King Island emu egg in the world.