A new species of crocodylomorph dating to around 215 million years ago has been described from the UK. It has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones, a secondary school ...

Following the first wild release of beavers in England on the National Trust’s Purbeck Estate last year, more beavers are now ...

Dr Douglas Gurr, the Natural History Museum’s Director, says, “No matter where you are in the world, it’s time to join the ...

The winning image and the four runners-up will be announced on Wednesday 25 March 2026. The winning image will be displayed in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, with the winner and ...

Smaller species are most affected. Pesticides are among the biggest threats to the life in soil, harming and killing worms, mites and insects that help to maintain soil fertility. Meanwhile, ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

There are around 11,000 species of bird living on our planet. They come in all shapes, colours and sizes, but which is the biggest of them all? From the tallest and the heaviest to giant nests and ...

Who will win this year’s Nuveen People’s Choice Award? Our judges picked 100 photos from more than 60,000 entries to feature in our exhibition. With Nuveen People’s Choice Award, it’s your turn to be ...

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, ...

The subject of legends for thousands of years, the largest living invertebrates remain relatively mysterious. Living deep below the surface of the ocean, scientists are only just beginning to reveal ...

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 ...

The Cambrian explosion is one of the most important intervals in the history of life. Now, new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) is revealing that this ...