With no end to the onslaught in sight, drastic and innovative measures are being taken to save the last of our planet’s ...

Discover a hidden prehistoric world where enormous marine reptiles ruled the seas, from swift underwater hunters to creatures with teeth the size of your face. Dive beneath the waves for an exclusive ...

Say hello to Attenboroughnculus tau! This new species of wasp, native to the Patagonian lakes of Chile, has been named after Sir David Attenborough in celebration of his centenary. An unassuming ...

Animals bite, grind and grab with their teeth – but nothing used its mouth quite like Tanyka amnicola. With its uniquely twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, the new species was a relic of an ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, morphological and molecular analysis. AMISTAD, a new collections-based research ...

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 290,099 5" x 3" (127 mm x 76 mm) index cards in the NHM's card archive to the scientific names of world Lepidoptera are stored in 265 metal filing cabinet drawers, which are housed on three floors ...

Dinosaurs dominated Earth for over 140 million years before having their reign ended by a colossal asteroid impact. Is it possible to bring these long gone reptiles back from the dead and, if we could ...

The reanalysis of ancient human skulls unearthed in China might upend how we thought humans evolved. New research argues that the age of the skull suggests that the split between our lineage and that ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record. New research, however, suggests that many of ...

A small dinosaur that once dashed along North American riverbanks has found a new home in London. The new species, named Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, is the most complete named specimen of its kind ...