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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Qingrong Yang (China) shows a ladyfish snatching its prey from right under this little egret’s beak. Qingrong was at Yundang Lake near his home, a place he visits regularly to photograph the feeding ...

People sometimes introduce animals and plants into new areas. When these harm their new environment, we call them invasive species. In some places, invasive species have changed the natural world ...

Straight-tusked elephants were some of the largest land mammals ever to have existed, but no one has been quite sure just how many of the now-extinct species existed throughout Africa, Europe and Asia ...

Sewage in Britain's waterways has been hitting the headlines recently. But what effect does raw waste have on our rivers, streams and oceans? Recent weeks have witnessed a public outcry after the ...