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Natural History Museum to fundraise £150 million to transform the museum at South Kensington in time for 150th anniversary in 2031

Visions of Nature: A mixed reality experience opens Thursday 24 October

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Academy is led by the Natural History Museum, London, in collaboration with the British Council.

The upcoming Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will showcase 100 photographs from around the world from 11 October 2024 in London.

Dental growth rings reveal dramatic differences in growth patterns between ancient and modern mammals 

Scientists have found that the same ancient gene family is responsible for the evolution and loss of prickles across many plants. 

New AirSeq technology detects airborne crop diseases saving farmers' money and promoting sustainable farming practices

A Little Gay Natural History is set to be published in paperback in retailers across the UK on 04 September 2024.

From Thursday 18 July, the Natural History Museum’s reimagined gardens will open their gates. Visitors can explore, rest and connect with urban nature in the free-to-visit green space in the heart of London this summer. 

Lord Hall was originally appointed to the Natural History Museum Board of Trustees on 29 November 2023 and will take over as Chair immediately.

The specimen, which is around 125 million years old, was found in the cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight. 

The River – an underwater sound composition by Jana Winderen in collaboration with Tony Myatt, opening Friday 26 July. 

The arrangement of legs, and exceptionally preserved soft tissue, such as the trilobites’ mouthparts and internal organs, can be seen in exquisite detail.

The Bornean elephant, has been officially classified as Endangered and added to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. 

The findings will be exhibited at the Royal Society’s free, public Summer Science Exhibition (2-7 July 2024). 

In delivering outstanding scientific leadership in combatting the parasitic disease schistosomiasis in Africa, David has improved the lives and well-being of many thousands of people for generations to come.

Evolutionary analysis reveals that Musankwa sanyatiensis was a member of the Sauropodomorpha, a group of bipedal, long-necked dinosaurs that were widespread during the Late Triassic. 

In affiliation with the RSPB, find out how you can help protect birds, ensuring earth’s greatest survivors continue to flourish alongside humanity

The fossil is estimated to be around 425 million years old and is the youngest species of this group to be formally described 

This will enable experts to explore their potential uses in addressing some of the most pressing problems facing humanity. 

Results suggest that the way these early animals mixed the water around them may have driven evolutionary innovation, such as the evolution of new feeding and movement styles.

Fellows are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science.

A transformed green space in the heart of London where visitors can connect with nature, the five-acre site will also be a hub for Museum scientists and volunteers to develop best practices to protect and enhance urban nature.

A world-class line-up of speakers will come together for a unique programme of talks and panels at Bristol Aquarium that will explore the triumphs and challenges of capturing nature in photography, as well as the future of the genre. 

Robert Noel and Prof Yadvinder Malhi CBE FRS have had their terms as Museum trustees extended by two and four years respectively

The tree can inform plant classification, discovery of new medicines and aid the conservation of plants in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss. 

Authors warn that the birds are likely to be drawn to new unprotected areas in the search for food which will have implications for conservation 

UK natural science collections hold more than 137 million items spanning an incredible 4.6-billion-year history - researchers use these collections to find solutions to global problems like biodiversity loss and food security

According to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), the Museum achieved a 22% increase in attendance with 5,688,786 visits last year, making it the second most visited attraction in the UK

The findings have lead scientists from across the world to officially propose that the area is a new ecoregion - the South East Africa Montane Archipelago (SEAMA). 

To mark the occasion, for the first time, the Museum has released CGI flythrough footage of what the facility is expected to look like.

Snakes evolved legless bodies, chemical detection systems and flexible skulls that enabled them to specialise on prey other reptiles, including lizards, cannot

Explore the astonishing adaptations and behaviours which have led birds to triumph on every corner of Earth.

Amber housing a pair of flies trapped in copulation have been digitised by the Natural History Museum in time for Valentine’s Day.

The 25 images in the running for this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award received a record number of votes with over 75,000 wildlife photography and nature fans from around the world casting their votes to name British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani this year’s winner. 

The pterosaur, named Ceoptera evansae, lived during the Middle Jurassic period (around 168–166 million years ago)

Young climate advocates, artists, educators and scientists set to come together for free programme of events exploring our current planetary emergency.

Neil Greenwood, Brad Irwin and Mark Read have been named

With Earth facing a biodiversity crisis, it has never been more important to understand the life that shares our planet. 

The existence of early Homo sapiens in Europe was over 150,000 years earlier than first thought

As birds continue to suffer from plastic ingestion, this new technology aims to accurately assess marine plastic pollution.

The species was found in a fossil specimen from the Rhynie Chert housed in the Natural History Museum’s collections.

From a mudskipper fish defending its territory to a young London fox making the most of a full bin, the 25 unforgettable images explore the beauty of the natural world and the impact of our actions. 

Both Trustees will commence an initial four-year term on 1 November 2023

The two organisations will open up significant insight to the Financial Markets 

Scientists are calling for more research to be done to gain a clearer understanding of how this process is impacting fragile marine environments.

The Natural History Museum has received 100mg of the asteroid Bennu for study. 

Throughout COP28, the NHM will focus on biodiversity loss, as a fate as dangerous to people and the planet as climate change and show that the solutions are linked. 

135-year-old specimens, along with cutting-edge genetic techniques, were key to concluding that a brand new species to science had been discovered and that it was a long way from home

The katydid evolved to best pick up the calls of its species but could also tune in to nearby echolocation calls of early bats 

Toad found living on volcano is new species and genus

The digitisation of birds from the Natural History Museum, Tring, and Manchester Museum collections help to explain different routes of evolution 

To celebrate the momentous anniversary, Wildlife Photographer of the Year has also announced an entry fee waiver for over 100 countries, changes to the competition’s rules, and a new special prize to encourage hopeful stories of the natural world.  

Interaction between land use and climate change is causing insect pollinator loss

The flagship Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition featuring the awarded images will open on Friday 13 October 2023 at the Natural History Museum in London.

Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM) deep dive into the uses and users of natural history collections held in the UK

The National Education Park is a new programme designed to empower young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future.

Leading Natural History Museum scientists discover cannibalism was a routine burial practice in Europe around 15,000 years ago

Scientists from the Natural History Museum will be part of a worldwide team to study the Bennu sample

Analysis could help us understand the origins of our Solar System

Ahead of the landmark competition, Wildlife Photographer of the Year has also announced an entry fee waiver for over 100 countries, changes to the competition’s rules, and a new special prize to encourage hopeful stories of the natural world.

A forest rodeo, a hidden stargazer and a mason bee at work are just a few of the awe-inspiring images featured in the fifty-ninth Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. 

New tree includes nearly twice as many species as previous attempts

Shahpur joins the Museum as its new Legal Trustee. He is a Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a leading global law firm. 

As Africa became increasingly arid in the past 10 million years, elephant teeth became increasingly adapted to resist wear

The new wasp species parasitises butterfly eggs.

As the UK’s most popular museum approaches its 150th birthday with a bold new strategy, a vision of a future where both people and the planet thrive and a mission to create advocates for the planet – it now has a new identity to match its ambitions.

International team revise behaviour of Cambrian creature

New Crystal Palace ‘Dinosaur’ to go on display

Sir David’s quote will inspire visitors to the Museum’s new gardens as part of its Urban Nature Project opening in 2024

Discover solutions from science and nature 

Attendees will delve into the Museum’s cutting-edge research and discover the hidden gems that lie behind the scenes in its collections. 

First armoured dinosaur to be described from the Isle of Wight in 142 years 

Over 90% of species in one of the most likely future mining sites are undescribed by science 

Climate change is melting ice across the Arctic, opening shorter sea routes in an area becoming widely known as the ‘Polar Silk Road’ for its opportunities for trade and access to new raw material deposits

The Natural History Museum, London has been selected as one of five finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023, the world’s largest museum prize.

“Prehistoric Planet” season two premieres globally today, May 22, with an epic five-night event on Apple TV+

New research offers ways to speed up the production of varieties that yield more crops and are resistant to environmental challenges 

Analysis of well-preserved Rotadiscus fossils sheds light on the origin and evolution of major groups alive today.

The Natural History Museum is set to be the star of a second series of Channel 5’s Natural History Museum: World of Wonder. 

Wednesdays at 8pm from 10 May on Channel 5

Scientists naming a new group of butterflies have paid homage to Lord of the Rings villain Sauron.

A new tool known as the Species Awareness Index (SAI) has been developed by scientists to track the changes in Wikipedia views in real-time for thousands of species and monitor change in online biodiversity awareness.

A new species of shorebird has emerged once again from the shadow of its close relative. DNA sequencing integral to suggesting that the two species diverged around 1.2 million years ago. 

Together with faith leaders, young Londoners of all faiths and none shared in the breaking of the Ramadan fast in the iconic Hintze Hall under Hope the Whale

Teeth found in southern England could represent some of the earliest relatives of birds ever discovered

£201 million will create a state-of-the-art collections, digitisation and research centre at Thames Valley Science Park in Reading.

Analysis of hundreds of living and extinct species by Natural History Museum scientists reveals that the diversity of body size across whales and dolphins is a more complex phenomenon than first thought

Titanosaur: Life as the biggest dinosaur opens in South Kensington on Friday 31 March 2023. 

Body condition of fledgling shearwaters has rapidly declined over the last decade

The specimens in these collections span millions of years, every ocean and land mass of the planet as well as items from across the solar system 

On Earth Day (April 22), the Natural History Museum is launching a major new community science project ‘Nature Overheard’, investigating the link between noise pollution and insect populations.

The Museum is continuing to see strong visitor attendance in 2023 so far and is on track to exceed 5 million for the financial year. 

Late Jurassic Chinese sauropod known as Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum sported a 15-metre-long neck

New plastic-induced disease in seabirds, plasticosis, discovered for first time

In an exclusive keynote address, NHM Chair Sir Patrick Vallance will discuss how climate change is a systems challenge which requires a systems approach to solutions. 

Dippy the Diplodocus has welcomed its first visitors as the nation’s favourite dinosaur takes centre stage at its new Coventry residence.

Sascha Fonseca’s spectacular camera trap image of a snow leopard at sunset has been voted as the winner of Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.

A new study has shown that rock-boring bivalves are more diverse in morphology than other bivalve groups. 

Climate advocates join the Museum’s scientists for free programme of events at ‘Generation Hope: Act for the Planet’

The Natural History Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Dame Jane Francis DCMG FRS to the Board of Trustees. 

Scientists have revealed the oldest example of a sexual combat weapon similar to the structures found in modern day Dynastinae (rhinoceros) beetles. 

The skulls of early dinosaurs are helping scientists at the Natural History Museum and the University of Bristol understand how some of the earliest herbivores may have evolved different ways of eating plants.

The free installation opens on Monday 20 February 2023 and tickets can be booked at the Herbert website closer to Dippy’s arrival

Professor Chris Stringer, Dr Sandra Knapp and Dr Richard Fortey named

A huge diversity of animals and plants both living and extinct have been named, from stick insects to dinosaurs and even a tiny beetle trapped in Ukrainian amber, not to mention an impressive 85 new species of wasps. 

Turtles will likely survive in a warming world if they are able to migrate to new habitats before theirs become unsustainable in a race against time to beat climate change

The Natural History Museum has announced ‘NHM Masterclass’, a series of short courses covering the breadth of cutting-edge science undertaken by researchers at the Museum. 

The public are invited to have their say and vote for their favourite image to win this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award run by the Natural History Museum, London. 

Presented by UNESCO and the Natural History Museum – this eye-catching artwork translates the scientific data and will help turn abstract commitments into tangible, understandable and visual experiences 

Titanosaur: Life as the biggest dinosaur will open in South Kensington on Friday 31 March 2023.

The Natural History Museum, London, Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata, and British Council are thrilled to announce the opening of an exhibition titled Young Minds for a Compassionate World, as part of the ongoing India/UK Together, a Season of Culture. 

The Winchcombe meteorite contains water similar to that found on Earth

A new paper uses a range of high-resolution analytical techniques to establish the biological origins of Earth’s oldest stromatolites from the 3.48 billion-year-old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia.

The Museum is delighted to be working with the Department for Education to lead a new partnership to establish a National Education Nature Park and climate action awards scheme.

The next biggest drivers are the exploitation of wildlife though fishing, logging, trade and hunting - and then pollution

A ground-breaking new research project has analysed the evolution of the placental mammal skull and crafted a new model of how mammals diversified based on the emerging patterns. 

Aye-ayes recorded using their elongated finger to pick their nose

The study shows that it is possible to obtain useful genetic information from some of the oldest human skeletal material in Britain

Visitors to the Natural History Museum will soon be able to engage with an emotive, life-like digital recreation of a northern white rhinoceros. 

Both Ryugu and CI chondrite meteorites originate from the same region of space, on the outskirts of the solar system, and could even have shared the same parent body

For the fifty-ninth year, the Natural History Museum’s prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has opened for entries from photographers of all ages, nationalities, and levels. 

New research suggests the health impacts of plastic pollution on seabirds could previously have been grossly underestimated

The winners of the Natural History Museum’s prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced at an awards ceremony in London today.The Natural History Museum will reveal the redesigned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition featuring the awarded images on 14 October 2022 in London.

This partnership will help the Museum’s scientists to build on scientific understanding of the UK’s biodiversity and environment, encourage more integrated cross-disciplinary research programmes, and drive forward science-led nature recovery in the UK’s urban spaces.

The Natural History Museum’s acclaimed Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has announced Kathy Moran, former Deputy Director of Photography of National Geographic Magazine, as the Chair of the jury of the fifty-ninth edition. 

Diagnosis concluded from this research should enable the preservation of more historic works of art in the future

Sample return from Hayabusa2 unlocks minerology and early history of asteroid Ryugu 

Construction for the Urban Nature Project has begun 

Climate and environment activist Greta Thunberg recently visited the Natural History Museum in London, where she came face to face with some its most spectacular exhibits – including the nation’s favourite dinosaur, Dippy the Diplodocus and the first Mantellisaurus dinosaur specimen to ever be discovered.

The earliest known extinct mammal has been identified using fossil dental records

An underwater wonderland, a disappearing giraffe and a treefrog pool party are just a few of the spectacular images included in the preview of Wildlife Photographer of the Year's fifty-eighth competition. 

Scientists analysed DNA from the remains of six individuals excavated in central Norwich, finding strong genetic affinities with modern Ashkenazi Jews, making them the oldest Jewish genomes to have been sequenced.

Excavations in South Africa, led by palaeontologists from the Evolutionary Studies Institute, Johannesburg, and the Natural History Museum, have unearthed a ‘bonebed’ of Lesothosaurus individuals, providing some of the earliest direct evidence of social living among ornithischian dinosaurs.

This study can help predict when and where bees will face most stress and potential decline in the future

The Natural History Museum’s free display ‘Our Broken Planet: How We Got Here and Ways to Fix It’ is set to close on 29 August, after receiving over a million visitors since opening in May last year.  

A programme of free in-person and online events this September will help young people aged 15-25 around the world drive positive change for global future

The Museum has launched an international digitisation collaboration which will mobilise a wealth of data on the scientific, geological and environmental history of Singapore.

Ecological artist Thijs Biersteker has created a 5-metre-tall robotic plant, using biodiversity data from the Natural History Museum, to create a (literally) moving monument to the importance of the choices we are making now for the future of our planet. 

The project will transform the Museum’s five-acre site into a free-to-visit green space in the heart of London opening next summer. 

Scientists have revealed the origins of endothermy in mammals, tracing the characteristic’s origins to around 233 million years ago.

Moth collected by Museum founder re-discovered during digitisation process 218 years after his birth

Today, the Natural History Museum has transferred the custodianship and care of the ancestral remains of over 100 individuals who will be returned to New Zealand. A formal ceremony took place at the Museum to mark this significant event.

The discovery of the rockrose prickly leaf beetle (Dicladispa testacea) is the first time the species has been recorded in Britain. It was identified from adult beetles on its namesake plant - the rockrose (Cistus) - in a garden in Surrey.

A team of scientists led by Dr Blanca Huertas of the Natural History Museum in London has published a free identification guide for the unique butterflies of Colombia. 

Ryugu dust represents some of the most pristine samples of ancient solar system ever studied

The bones are likely to be the youngest spinosaur material yet known from the UK

The Natural History Museum is delighted that Miranda Lowe, Principal Curator of Crustacea has been awarded with a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2022. 

The nation’s favourite dinosaur is back at the Natural History Museum.

Dippy is back for a limited time - the free installation opens on Friday 27 May.

The Natural History Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Read to the Board of Trustees, from 1 June 2022.

The fossils are microscopic imprints, or ‘ghosts’, of single-celled plankton, called coccolithophores, that lived in the seas millions of years ago, and their discovery is changing our understanding of how plankton in the oceans are affected by climate change.

The Natural History Museum is today announcing plans to develop a new global and sustainable base for high-end natural sciences research and international collaboration with the University of Reading. 

Study includes largest whale skull data set ever gathered including specimens of living species and fossilised animals. 

The Natural History Museum has completed creating digital records of over 8000 bat specimens, providing a unique record of where bat populations have existed over time. 

An international team from London’s Natural History Museum, the University of Southampton and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California have used the Natural History Museum’s digitised butterfly collections to evaluate the impact of climate change on British butterfly species size. 

The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) has released the visitor figures of its members for 2021 today (Friday, March 18, 2022), revealing the Natural History Museum achieved a 21% increase in attendance with 1,571,413 visitors last year making it the most popular indoor attraction in the UK.

The Natural History Museum is searching for a partner venue to host the iconic Diplodocus cast for a long-term loan

The species is the earliest thyreophoran (armoured) dinosaur found in China to date

The Natural History Museum celebrates Mars Day and week with an art installation of the red planet by artist Luke Jerram

The new special, airing 27 February, will see Stephen Fry investigate the stories behind some of the world’s most fantastic beasts. 

The nation's favourite dinosaur is being welcomed home to the Natural History Museum, London for a limited time from May.

 This unique exhibition will take visitors on an underwater journey to encounter some of the impressive, strange creatures that dominated Earth’s Jurassic seas while dinosaurs ruled the land.

An enchanting image of willow branches mirrored by the surface of a frozen Italian lake, submitted in dedication to a lost friend, has won Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award 2021.

Scientists have discovered evidence of the earliest modern humans (Homo sapiens) in western Europe from a cave in France’s Rhône Valley. 

The Trustees of the Natural History Museum are delighted to announce that Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser.  

The Darwin Tree of Life project, including a team from the Natural History Museum, is working to sequence the genomes of 70,000 species of animal, plant, fungi in Britain and Ireland as part of the larger Earth BioGenome Project.

Over five million specimens – around six percent of the Natural History Museum’s collection –have now been digitised and released onto the Museum’s Data Portal where they can be freely accessed globally. 

Scientists from the Natural History Museum and Durham University have conducted the first study of its kind linking magma recharge patterns 

Over the last 12 months, the researchers, curators and scientific associates at the Natural History Museum have described 552 species new to science.

Imprints on Welsh beach thought to be dinosaur footprints 

A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest such analysis published to date, scientists including those from the Natural History Museum examined the DNA of nearly 800 ancient individuals.

An exceptionally-preserved Jurassic fossil from Gloucestershire in the UK has given new insights into the inner workings of ammonites, finds a study involving Natural History Museum scientists, published in the journal Geology.

An international group of researchers have found evidence of tropical frogs adapting to warming temperatures, but warn that human-induced climate change still poses a huge threat to species’ survival.

The Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is inviting fans of wildlife photography from around the world to vote online for the winner of the People’s Choice Award. Online voting opens now, until 14.00pm (GMT) on Tuesday 2 February 2022. 

Sara Motaghian from the Natural History Museum has been awarded the 2021 Institute of Physics Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize.

Scientists from the Natural History Museum and the University of Portsmouth have described a new genus and species of dinosaur from a specimen found on the Isle of Wight, indicating that the diversity of dinosaurs in the Early Cretaceous of the UK was much greater than previously thought.

The Natural History Museum has announced it has set a science-based carbon reduction target, developed in line with the scale of reductions required to keep global warming below a 1.5°C rise from pre-industrial levels.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, USA, is the first to host a brand-new exhibition showcasing award-winning animal behaviour images from the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, opening today. 

The display, open until April 2022, is part of a year-long season of activity aiming to kick-start a public debate with visitors about why and how our relationship with the natural world needs to change. 

Dippy to return home to Natural History Museum from summer through to Christmas 2022

Natural History Museum today announces its range of engagement activity throughout COP26, in Glasgow, London and digitally; including collaboration with The New York Times Climate Hub and other projects.

For the fifty-eighth year, the Natural History Museum’s acclaimed Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has opened for entries from photographers of all ages, nationalities, and levels. 

A rare 93-carat natural black diamond is on display in The Vault at the Natural History Museum, London for one year. The centrepiece of this incredible pendant is the largest diamond currently on display at the Museum. 

Selected from more than 50,000 entriesfrom 95 countries, the winners of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were revealed today at anonline awards ceremony.

Natural History Museum analysis has revealed that the UK has only 53% of its biodiversity left.

The species is the oldest theropod discovered in the UK to date

Wildlife Photographer of the Year announces prestigious panel of international jury members and introduces an entry fee waiver for 50 countries ahead of the fifty-eighth annual competition.

Natural History Museum scientist describes new species of dinosaur 

The Sloane Lab will be a freely available, online digital lab uniting Sloane’s historically and scientifically significant collections held by the Natural History Museum, British Library and British Museum 

The Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project will create an urban nature movement through a UK-wide learning programme for young people

From plastic pollution to biodiversity loss, the display provides an overview of all the key issues people need to know about to get clued up ahead of COP26 in November.

The two primary aims of the NASA Mars 2020 mission are to reconstruct the environment of Jezero crater 3.5 billion years ago and to look for signs of ancient life. 

The Natural History Museum is delighted to welcome non-alcoholic spirits brand Seedlip as Associate Sponsor for this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Museum in London.

With a record-breaking number of entries from around the world, thejudges of thefifty-seventh Wildlife Photographer of the Year have had the toughest job yet.

Findings signify the presence of distinct groups of early human species over time, and include the oldest dated hominin occupations in Arabia.

Over 1000 scientifically important, exquisitely preserved specimens have been excavated, including species new to science.

Choristers at Norwich Cathedral are the first to welcome the jurassic giant

The Museum and Diamond Light Source are to generate and share data from the Museum’s vast insect collections to support research into their evolution, diversity and extinctions.

The Urban Nature Project was designed as a response to the urgent need to both monitor and record changes to the UK's urban nature and fill the skills gap required to do so. 

The species will still be known by the common name Shark Bay Mouse, or Djoongari, while reverting to the original scientific name Pseudomys gouldii.

Immense in size and presenting both primitive and derived features make the Harbin cranium quite distinct.

The visit coincided with the publication of the Museum’s Annual Review which shows how it is addressing the planetary emergency. 

A twist on the scintillatingly popular true crime genre, Wild Crimes will explore the shocking and sinister world of the illegal wildlife trade, one of the biggest yet lesser-known criminal trades in the world. 

Student's will receive hands on training and the chance to use these microscopes over an extended period of time

How do we mine a sustainable future?

In a first for the Museum, the concert took on a digital fundraising approach which proved to be highly successful in both generating income for the project and in engaging thousands of new donors and supporters for the Museum

The green energy revolution is heavily reliant on raw materials, such as cobalt and lithium which must be mined

It is essential visitors book a free timed ticket in advance online at nhm.ac.uk

The new species, now known as Joseph's racer, was first collected in the mid-19th Century, but the confusion around this snake goes back over two centuries.

The new study looks into the potential extinction of Arthroleptides dutoiti, or Du Toit’s Torrent frog.

It is hoped the project will mitigate the risk of future pandemics

International scientific collaboration sheds light on seal evolution.

The largest dataset of its kind included 173 species of frog from across the evolutionary tree. 

Explore how humans have shaped the planet and find solutions to a greener and sustainable future 

New research reveals changes in relative brain sizes over last 150 million years

The unique performance  raised over £75k for the Museum’s ground-breaking Urban Nature Project

New study sheds light on the role viruses play in different ecosytems

Thus new paper comes from researchers, including Dr Alex Bond, the Senior Curator in Charge of Birds at the Natural History Museum

The Museum is delighted to welcome visitors back, opening the doors to its world-famous building in South Kensington – government guidance permitting

The specialised hearing abilities of the Ganges river dolphin may well have been a key reason why it has survived when most other members of this group have become extinct.

Experts conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and the ancient humans known from fossil records in Island Southeast Asia.

The meteorite, likely to be known as the Winchcombe meteorite, is an extremely rare type called a carbonaceous chondrite, which have been known to contain organics and amino acids – ingredients for life

He will discuss how we can develop solutions that rebuild nature, enhance biodiversity and restore the delicate balance of our planetary systems

The Natural History Museum’s Max Barclay made the prediction in 2014 following a trip to the US, where he noticed the similarity in climate

In a continuation of the Tales of the Earth series, the Natural History Museum has today launched the first coin from its second collection with The Royal Mint, 

Pioneering by nature, this is the first rover mission with a specific objective to search for ancient life on Mars, the first attempt at remote flight on another planet via a helicopter and the first step toward a planned sample return mission

The researchers found that oldest tooth belonged to a previously unknown genetic lineage of mammoth. 

The study found that, although with a small sample size, mesopelagic fishes, which are understudied, can ingest microplastics

The new research uses data from a 2018 study, which is still the largest analysis of ancient DNA from Britain ever conducted.

A new hard-hitting report, submitted as evidence to the independent Dasgupta Review, is released today. 

The study identified three key phases in our ancestry that are surrounded by major questions, and which will be frontiers in coming research

His dramatic record of the devastation wreaked in the wake of a bushfire in Northern Australia won the prize

Experts are concerned that a lack of plant monographs (the in-depth study of a plant group) is putting undiscovered species at risk

Study reveals how centipedes have adopted weapons of plants and fungi via horzontal gene transfer.

The large neck frill of ceratopsian dinosaurs was likely the result of sexual selection

The new research found that the teeth which have been reexamined are from at least two adult individuals who share the same distinctive features, suggesting traits prevalent in their population.

The Natural History Museum has developed its first childrenswear collection with John Lewis, created alongside licensee Bro Global Group.

The Natural History Museum has again partnered with online design brand, MADE.COM, to develop their third collaborative capsule collection.

Senior Curator of Insects Max Barclay made the discovery and noted that the species has never been known to have existed in the UK.

Despite an uncertain year with much acitvity at the Museum slowedcrucial work has continued.

The Natural History Museum is set to star in a brand-new four-part primetime Channel 5 series next year.

It has been discovered by a group of NHM scientists with help from colleagues at the Diamond Lightsource and Slovakia

The programme aims to kick-start a public debate with visitors to the Museum galleries and its vast global audience online about why and how our relationship with the natural world needs to change.

Scientists have unearthed fossilised eyes of an extinct group of sea creature called radiodonts. The findings suggest vision played an important role in an evolutionary race that has shaped today's ecosystems.

The public are invited to have their say in the Natural History Museum’s prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition

The Natural History Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Sarah Thomas to the Board of Trustees.

The Natural History Museum is delighted to be able to, once again, offer a warm welcome to visitors

The results of the University of Saskatchewan-led research, published in Nature, provide the most comprehensive atlas of wheat genome sequences ever reported

A new study from researchers at the Natural History Museum and University of Bath has looked at the diversity of dinosaurs just before the asteroid that led to their extinction hit
66 million years ago. 

Some fishermen targeting tuna, swordfish and halibut in the southwest Atlantic are cutting the beaks off live albatrosses to free them from hooks, before tossing the birds back into the ocean to die. 

New primate discovered in Myanmar thanks to genetic work carried out on 100 year-old Natural History Museum specimens

Dormice on the island of Formentera are about 50% bigger than the mainland ones. Those on Majorca used to be slightly bigger still, and those on Sicily about the size of a cat

Sir David Attenborough says the Urban Nature Project will allow young people to “fall in love with the nature on their doorsteps.”  

Explore the links between animals of the natural world, mythical creatures and their fictional counterparts from the Wizarding World.

A new paper was published in which researchers discovered that these marine slugs and snails originated during the Cretaceous period.

A ‘safety net’ made up of multiple, interlinked and ambitious goals is needed to tackle nature’s alarming decline.

For the fifty-seventh year, the Natural History Museum’s acclaimed Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has opened for entries from photographers of all ages and abilities.

Selected from over 49,000 entries from around the world, the winners were revealed during an online awards ceremony.

It will be revealed in the competition’s first virtual awards ceremony, livestreamed from the heart of the Museum on Tuesday 13 October.

The research used ancient DNA techniques to obtain the first genetic data from several extinct species, including the completely extinct Caribbean spiny rats and 'giant hutias', to reconstruct the origins and evolutionary history of this enigmatic group. 

Fossils of teeth, the size of a pinhead, from two of the earliest mammals, Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, were scanned for the first time using powerful X-rays.

Discover some of the Natural History Museum's scariest specimens with a spooky self-led trail around the hallowed halls at night.  

RBG Kew’s fourth State of the World’s report, released today, takes a deep dive into the state of the world’s plant and fungal kingdoms globally

The jury is comprised of prestigious, international photographers and industry experts and the new categories focus on people's impact on the planet.

The infographics focus on the movement of people, air and noise pollution and wildlife sightings in the UK

Today, WWF’s Living Planet Report is launched, which reveals a two-thirds decline in wildlife populations on average since 1970. 

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is delighted to welcome Leica Camera as a sponsor for this year's exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum.

These are just some of the fascinating and thought-provoking images from this year's competition.

Since the discovery of the findings, a team of scientists from the Natural History Museum, the University of Newcastle and University of York have been analysing the prehistoric markings and believe they represent the earliest evidence of artistic expression discovered in the British Isles. 

A new study of over 390 birds and dinosaurs shows that bird skulls evolve much more slowly than other dinosaurs and are far less diverse than their extinct ancestors. 

A half-a-million-year-old internationally significant archaeological site in offers unprecedented insights into the life of a poorly understood extinct human species.

New research lists for the first time all of the plants in New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island.

This is the first time the Museum will return one of its meteorite samples to space for the benefit of science

The research is the product of a collaboration between the Natural History Museum, Royal Holloway and the Zoological Society of London.

Taking place from Monday 27 July – Sunday 9 August, the virtual festival aims to connect people with nature

Following an almost five-month long closure the Natural History Museum is delighted to be able to offer a warm welcome to visitors from Wednesday 5 August.

The research is the most comprehensive study to date, spanning the evolutionary history of cetaceans.

New research on the Turkana Boy fossil is changing our understanding of its species Homo erectus

The researchers have named the animal Mukupirna, meaning ‘big bones’ in Dieri and Malyangapa, which are the Aboriginal languages spoken in the region of South Australia where the fossil was found.” 

A team of scientists, led by Natural History Museum postdoctoral researcher Dr. Anne-Claire Fabre, have conducted the first study on how metamorphosis has influenced the evolution of salamanders.  

The Trustees of the Natural History Museum are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Douglas Gurr as the new Director of the Museum.

During the month of May 2020, during lockdown, a staggering 379.96M records in 7,328 datasets were downloaded from the Natural History Museum’s Data Portal

The Natural History Museum is collaborating with data visualisation company Beyond Words to illustrate how the movement of people has altered during lockdown.

The Natural History Museum is partnering with explorer and environmentalist David de Rothschild, to deliver two live panel discussions in celebration of the UN’s World Environment Day.

The Dinosauria Collection is the result of a unique collaboration between the Natural History Museum and The Royal Mint, which has seen dinosaurs featured on official UK 50p coins for the very first time.

The Natural History Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Yadvinder Malhi FRS and Harris Bokhari OBE to the Board of Trustees.

The Natural History Museum, London, has launched a unique virtual tour experience for its Venue Hire clients

Researchers have discovered a new species of seaweed Calidia pseudolobata as well as four new genera of red algae from the warm waters of China.

A team of scientists have revealed ancient Martian rivers in unprecedented detail for the first time.

The Natural History Museum has become custodian of a unique and scientifically pre-eminent set of original manuscript notebooks written by Dr George Murray Levick.

It is dedicated to the study of crop genetic diversity.

It will start a national drive to reengage people with the natural world and urban biodiversity.

3-million-year old fossils shed new light on the evolution of our early ancestor’s brain

Scientists from the Natural History Museum have helped date the Broken Hill skull, a key early human discovered in Africa in the 1920s.

The Dinosauria Collection celebrates the British discovery of dinosaurs.

Sam Rowley's ‘Station squabble’ emerged as the favourite.

It's the seventh stop for the dinosaur cast.

Discover what lies inside animal mummies.

Clare is the Museum’s Executive Director of Engagement.

Samples collected 150 years ago are helping measure how acidification is impacting the world's oceans.