Though these animals are vital to marine ecosystems, our impact on the planet is pushing bivalves to the brink. Habitat loss, ...

Some of the world’s largest glaciers may take thousands of years to regrow if global temperatures breach 1.5ºC of warming.

Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? will take you on an interstellar adventure like no other. Rocketing you from Earth’s most ...

Mosura fentoni was a trailblazer for modern arthropods, developing adaptations that some crustaceans and arachnids re-evolved ...

While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the first truly terrestrial vertebrates. Some of these animals, known as the ...

Looking back over the past 45 years it is gratifying to see how conservation of the collections has become so necessary and relevant to the work of the Museum. Women in science are being fully ...

Touch a piece of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a piece of Mars and enjoy a day out-of-this-world at the Natural History Museum’s new family exhibition all about the search for life in space.

Welcome to the Nature Recording Hub. Here you can discover how to record the wildlife in your urban environment, improving our understanding of UK habitats and how to protect and enhance them. By ...

Going digital also lowers our costs and means your membership card is always with you on your phone. We want everyone to be able to make the most of their membership and enjoy what we have to offer.

If you want to record the biodiversity in your local area, you might wonder where to start. You might have a preference for certain species groups, a rough idea of what lives on your site, or a ...

The database provides information on discrete sub-collections within the conodont collection housed at the Museum. It includes generic, specific and subspecific names, and links to images are included ...

The raven features a lot in native North American folklore, revered as a deity and regarded as a trickster and even as a mediator between life and death. For visitors to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, ...