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The Natural History Museum is excited to announce the launch of its latest podcast series, The ‘Perfect’ Specimen, a fresh and irreverent take on the natural world, hosted by Museum zoologist Dr ...

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 ...

The butchered remains of great bustards found in the graves of people buried 15,000 years ago show that these birds had a cultural significance. The researchers hope that the remains unearthed in ...

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 ...

The slender-billed curlew was a species of wading bird last officially seen three decades ago. Despite the occasional unsubstantiated reports since then, researchers have combed through all the ...

A beautiful new species of clearwing moth that is native to Guyana has been described after it was discovered 7,000 kilometres away in Port Talbot, Wales. An unlikely sequence of events has led ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is back for its sixtieth anniversary, celebrating the wonder of the natural world with some of the most extraordinary images of our planet. From high-jumping stoats ...

Free display, book your free Museum entry ticket. Images of Nature gallery, South Kensington This year we’re celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of our world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the ...

After more than a century of searching, the head of one of the largest ever birds has been found. Nicknamed the ‘giga-goose’, the newly uncovered skull provides a detailed insight into how Genyornis ...