The 7-metre-long Baa-Ewe Tapestry, inspired by the iconic Bayeux Tapestry and featuring Shaun and friends, has been unveiled by Tom Daley at the Natural History Museum ahead of the cinema release of ...

A national blue plaque has been unveiled for palaeontologist Dorothea Bate at the Natural History Museum in Tring.

Join our spider-spotting team looking-out for 11 species, and build our understanding of how their populations are faring in ...

Visit the National Education Nature Park website opens in a new window The Natural History Museum is leading a partnership that has developed the National Education Nature Park, commissioned as part ...

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 ...

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 ...

An experiment from 1979 to mine the deep sea has provided a rare opportunity to see how the fragile ecosystem at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean responds to disturbance. The researchers have found ...

An expedition to some of the Earth's deepest ocean trenches has broken records for deep-sea fish. The team has taken the deepest recording of any fish, as well as the first individuals caught below ...

Scientists have recorded plants producing airborne sounds in response to lack of water or having their stems damaged. The ultrasonic pops occurred in rapid bursts, which differed depending on the type ...

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 ...

Centuries after they were wiped out, the reintroduction of beavers to the UK is gathering pace. Following a government announcement allowing beavers to be released in the wild, a flurry of ...

Ancient DNA shows that the culture that brought Bronze Age technology to Britain was connected to a migration that almost completely replaced the island's earlier inhabitants. Museum scientists were ...