Vertebrate news

The decline in native birds is threatening the existence of island biodiversity.

The skull shape of birds is just a tiny fraction of the diversity that would have been seen in their dinosaur ancestors.

Discover how we're helping some of the most threatened animals on Earth.

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

Female specimens are under represented in collections.

Dugongs help fight climate change by protecting seagrass meadows.

Wherever humans have gone, pigs have followed.

What can we learn from scanning snakes?

It has the highest density of plastic in the world.

Small primates were sailing the high seas long before humans existed.

Whales had more cortisol in their bodies while the global whaling industry was at its peak.

A new study is helping to explain how evolution works.

The fish burrows underground and breaths through the lining of its mouth. 

The Museum is scanning its collection of whale specimens so that the data is easier to handle and accessible to researchers around the world.

A deadly fungus has been devastating populations of amphibians all over the world - but no one knew where it began until now.

African toads that give birth to live young evolved the strategy to cope with mountainous regions lacking suitable areas of water for tadpoles to develop in.