Published in Nature, the research compiled data for nearly 3,700 bird species from 1,200 sites across the world, revealing that habitat modification, such as urbanisation and agricultural expansion, ...

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...

Scientists working on the Arctic archipelago’s largest island, Spitsbergen, uncovered a 249-million-year-old bonebed on the ...

The century-long story of two blue whale vertebrae can now be told for the first time, revealing their part in helping to ban ...

Travel through 4.6 billion years of our planet's history and help protect its future. Snap a selfie with a piece of Mars, touch a fragment of the Moon and lay your hands on a meteorite older than our ...

Read about the plants, animals and minerals discovered by Museum scientists. A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land. An ...

The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

The museum’s mineral preparation laboratory prepares specimens from the collections for further analysis with SEM, geochemical and optical description ...

The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...

Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...

Woolly mammoths roamed parts of Earth’s northern hemisphere for at least half a million years. They were still in their heyday 20,000 years ago but within 10,000 years they were reduced to isolated ...

Two species of seal live in the UK all year round – the grey seal and the harbour seal. These earless seals are found around much of our coastline and sometimes venture into our rivers too. The grey ...