Marmoretta is a stem lepidosaur, an early relative of the group containing all lizards and snakes as well as an unusual ...

For a brief period of a few weeks in the summer, male stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) fly in search of a mate. They use their spectacular jaws to wow the ladies and conduct dramatic duels with their ...

Taforalt cave, also called Grotte des Pigeons, is a globally important site. It contains the graves of over 30 ancient humans ...

The Natural History Museum hosted a formal ceremony on 10 April 2025 with Australia’s Department of Infrastructure, Transport ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species looked.

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Get a free ticket to visit the Museum and skip the queues. South Kensington, London. Download a map. We’re facing a nature crisis, but there’s hope Packed with contemporary science from our ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

The far side of the Moon is much drier than expected. Getting a better idea of how much water is on the Moon is important not just for future astronauts, but also to understand how it formed. There ...

Natural History Museum scientist Professor Anjali Goswami has been appointed as the new Chief Science Advisor at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and will take up the ...

In 2017, the Museum unveiled a female blue whale skeleton as the new star of its reimagined Hintze Hall. The whale, named Hope, stands as a symbol of humanity’s power to shape a sustainable future.