The high-tech network of environmental sensors in the Natural History Museum’s (NHM) Nature Discovery Garden, supported by The Cadogan Charity, has collected more than 11 millio ...

From slow, plant-eating giants to fierce scavengers and hunters, dinosaurs once dominated the land. Search our alphabetical list, or explore dinosaurs by when and where they lived or what type they ...

Beneath the ocean’s crushing blackness lies an ecosystem that’s learned to thrive without sunlight or warmth. It’s a world full of organisms with unique adaptations to such a challenging environment.

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) comes from both natural sources (including volcanoes, the breath of animals and plant decay) and human sources (primarily the burning of fossils fuels like coal, oil and natural ...

Researcher in Petrology and Mineral Deposits in the Mineralogy and Origin of Ore Deposits Group of the Economic and Environmental Mineralogy Division, since July 2012 part of the Museum’s Department ...

We’ve prized sticky, sugary-sweet honey for thousands of years, but how do honeybees make this golden marvel and is it good for us? We have one small insect to thank for our UK supermarket aisles ...

We now know the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. By analysing the chemical signatures of rocks from the end of the Cretaceous Period, scientists have found that it came from beyond ...

The Grand Title award for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 60 has gone to Shane Gross for his captivating image of ribbons of tadpoles swimming through a pond. In The Swarm of Life, a drove of ...

Spotted lanternflies have been hitchhiking their way across Asia and the United States for several years. But why do they keep hitting the headlines? An invasion of spotted lanternflies, Lycorma ...

Humans may have been driven to the brink of extinction within the past million years, new research suggests. While the claims of a population bottleneck could explain longstanding mysteries in ...

The world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, could disappear in the next century as rising sea levels threaten to submerge its habitat. It joins a number of iconic species, including the tiger, ...

Centuries of farming, building and industry have made the UK one of the most nature-depleted countries in Europe. Extensive agricultural lands and road networks, in combination with other factors, ...