How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

Find answers to your big nature questions. Delve into stories about our research, scientists and the collections we care for. Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the ...

Some dinosaurs could reach enormous sizes. In fact, the very biggest would tower over any land animal alive today! Get to know some of the largest dinosaurs to have ever walked the planet. Dinosaur ...

As the cave was over 100 kilometres from the coast when the pendant was made 15,000 years ago, it suggests that ancient ...

Compiled by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and published in Frontier Economics, it is thought that sequencing all species from ...

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

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

The island of Madagascar is home to several unusual animals. If you’ve ever seen the film Madagascar you’ll be familiar with the lemur and the fossa, but have you ever heard of a tenrec? With just a ...

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 ...

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Our extensive collections, world-class facilities and expertise are helping to tackle some of the biggest global challenges. Discover how we are using our broad knowledge and cutting-edge techniques ...

They could beat a horse in a race and survive a blizzard. No challenge is too much for these butterflies and moths. Beating the competition is everything. It’s forced some species to grow faster, ...