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 ...
Each summer, there comes a moment when we suddenly notice that the ground is crawling with large, winged ants. Then the air seems to be full of them and we find ourselves ducking and diving, trying ...
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 ...
Explore our galleries and grounds through hands-on activities inspired by fossil hunter Dorothea Bate’s remarkable work. Dorothea was a pioneering scientist and our Officer in Charge at Tring from ...
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 ...
Our revitalised Museum will be the heart of a global mission to create 100 million advocates for the planet, powered by our scientists’ work to find solutions to the planetary emergency Natural ...
The sequencing of the oldest human DNA in the UK so far has shown that two distinct populations of humans lived in Britain following recolonisation at the end of the Ice Age. The two populations lived ...
Horseshoe crabs are often called living fossils due to their superficial resemblance to fossils dating back hundreds of millions of years. A new beautifully preserved fossil of a horseshoe crab has ...
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, ...
A newly discovered dinosaur is shining a light on an important moment in the evolution of dinosaurs. Discovered on the shore of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, Musango matusadonaensis opens a window into the ...
Groundbreaking discovery shows humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought
Research published in Nature provides evidence of the earliest known instance of fire making by humans – around 400,000 years ago The ability to make fire is a critical turning point in human ...
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, ...
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