NEWS
Scientists support restoration of Brazil's National Museum collections after fire
27 August 2019
A year after the devastating blaze in Rio de Janeiro, hope lives on.
Mantellisaurus: 3D-scanning one of the most complete British dinosaurs
20 August 2019
A usually inaccessible dinosaur will be available to researchers around the world.
DINOSAURS
How to become a palaeontologist
12 July 2019
Dr Susie Maidment shares what it's like to be a dinosaur researcher, how she got into this career and advice for budding palaeontologists.
Rainbow Museum: celebrating our LGBTQ+ staff
28 June 2019
LGBTQ+ staff share their stories in their own words.
COLLECTIONS
Joseph Banks: scientist, explorer and botanist
17 June 2019
Meet eighteenth-century naturalist and collector Sir Joseph Banks.
Meet the Museum's dinosaur hunters
14 June 2019
Get to know the Museum scientists working on the latest dinosaur discoveries.
OCEANS
What does it take to study the ocean?
7 June 2019
Much of the ocean remains unexplored, but scientists at the Museum are helping unravel the mysteries of the world beneath the waves.
Nadine Gabriel: studying 4.6 billion years of history
23 May 2019
The face of modern science is young, black, female and ambitious.
Over 270 new species discovered in 2018
27 December 2018
They include new dinosaurs, an ancient wombat and a giant shark.
Patrick Campbell on being young and black in science
7 November 2018
When Patrick started caring for the Museum's fish specimens, he became one of the institution's first black curators.
Who was Graman Kwasi?
4 October 2018
Though visitors can spot his namesake on the iconic gilded ceiling of the Museum's Hintze Hall, few will have heard of Graman Kwasimukambe.
'Asteroid forensics' could reveal the origin of water
17 August 2018
Meteorite impacts may have been key to life on Earth.
Close-up images of asteroid Ryugu captured by spacecraft Hayabusa2
10 August 2018
Discover the story behind the latest images to come from a Japanese sample return asteroid mission.
New Centre for Human Evolution Research announced
25 April 2018
The new centre will allow scientists to collaborate more closely and share pioneering research.
Inside bioinformatics: Q&A with Dr Katherine James
13 March 2018
Dr Katherine James combines her love of biology and computing to interpret complex genetic data.
Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood: my Museum hero
8 March 2018
Brachiopod curator Zoë Hughes celebrates the life and work of one of the Museum's great pioneering geologists.
Explore the Museum's collection with Sir David Attenborough
6 March 2018
Virtual reality is providing unprecedented access to the Museum's most precious specimens.
The women watching over London's natural history collections
5 March 2018
Women working with Museum collections share what they love about their jobs, and their advice for budding curators.
DISCOVER
Women in science and research at the Natural History Museum
1 March 2018
Female researchers are helping to answer some of the biggest questions about life on Earth.
Life in the ice wilderness
23 February 2018
Hear from researcher Dr Anne Jungblut as she explores the abundance of life in the glaciers of South Georgia.
In high spirits: meet Charles Darwin's octopus
12 February 2018
Brimming with enthusiasm for the natural world, even Charles Darwin didn't always get it right.
New life found at the bottom of Antarctic seas
25 January 2018
A massive survey of life in the freezing seas around Antarctica has shown that they harbour many more animals than previously thought.
Alice Roberts: How the Museum has inspired me
11 January 2018
TV presenter, author and academic Alice Roberts shares memories of the Museum and how it influenced her fascination with human evolution.
Who was Alfred Russel Wallace?
8 January 2018
An intrepid explorer and brilliant naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace co-published the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin.
A lifetime on the bottom of the sea
20 December 2017
What is it like to stand on the ocean floor? What do you learn from a lifetime spent in the heart of the sea?
Charles Darwin's coral conundrum
27 April 2016
Darwin’s first scientific theory wasn’t about evolution, but how coral reefs form around the world.
Amazonian artwork by pioneers of evolutionary theory now online
7 July 2015
Scientific artwork by Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates - two of the most important nineteenth-century biologists and natural history collectors - is available online for the first time.
Britain's first geological map
26 June 2015
Unearth 15 facts about William Smith’s pioneering map, which was published in 1815.
Natural Histories
27 May 2015
Listen to the stories of extraordinary species that have influenced human society and changed the way we see the world.
BBC Radio 4 Natural Histories series announced
19 April 2015
Museum announces a partnership with BBC Radio 4 to begin 2 June 2015.
