Welcome to the Natural History Museum in South Kenshington, London This is a step-by-step visual guide to help you plan your visit. It includes information on travel, entering and exploring the Museum ...
Discover the journey of our largest specimen and what science and storytelling have revealed about Hope’s life.
A team of British, South African and Zimbabwean scientists have been working to change this as part of research in Zimbabwe. The team previously named Musankwa sanyatiensis as just the fourth dinosaur ...
Discover some of the sensational specimens found by Mary Anning that are now part of the collections we look after.
An unassuming fragment of fossil bone collected four decades ago has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur bone ever discovered on Antarctica. Today, Antarctica is known for its thick ice cap ...
There’s increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn’t fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...
The identity of a mysterious artefact found in Devon almost 160 years ago has finally been revealed. New research has identified it as a pendant made from the tooth of a grey seal, which would have ...
A ‘quite rare’ fossil find from South Korea is the nation’s first new dinosaur in 15 years. Adding to the rich diversity of extinct animals from this region, it has been called Doolysaurus huhmin due ...
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 ...
London – UK – Wednesday 07 January - The Pokémon Company International and the Natural History Museum, London have unveiled new details about the highly anticipated pop-up shop first announced in ...
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 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 ...
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