Running from Monday 26 January to Sunday 19 April in the Museum’s Cranbourne Boutique shop, the free ticketed pop-up was extended to give more fans the chance to attend. Time slots are all fully ...

The discovery of new Ajkaceratops skull fossils has finally provided the evidence that shows ceratopsians did make it to Europe after all. The palaeontologists found that not only was this Hungarian ...

Following an extensive global search for candidates, the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, today announces the appointment of Dr Sandra (Sandy) Knapp OBE FRS as its first Director of Research.

Fossils of ceratopsian dinosaurs, the group containing Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs, have been vanishingly rare in Europe while being widespread across Asia and North America, until now. New ...

Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892) is regarded as one of the most prominent scientific figures of the Victorian era. He devoted a career spanning 60 years to research in zoology and palaeontology, ...

Following last year’s sell-out event, our New Year’s Eve: Party at the Museum is back! Make natural history with us as we celebrate the arrival of 2026. Standard tickets for this event are sold out.

Museum planetary science researcher Prof Sara Russell explains the origins of Earth's closest companion. 'There used to be a number of theories about how the Moon was made and it was one of the aims ...

Revealing the most interesting or memorable behaviour of any of the multitude of smaller animals without backbones – whether on land, in the air, or in water. Georgina Steytler (Australia) showcases ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

The controlled use of fire is one of the reasons our species was able to survive and spread around the world. But the newly unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making shows that we were not the ...

Over the last two decades there has been a revolution in the study of dinosaurs after it was discovered that some of these extinct animals were feathered. Exactly how many dinosaurs had feathers has ...