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

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

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

The first samples returned from the far side of the Moon suggest it's 10-100 times drier than the side nearer Earth.

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

Select a scene to explore the whale's story, from the ocean to the Museum's collections to the historic Hintze Hall.

Ocean acidification can negatively affect marine life, causing organisms' shells and skeletons made from calcium carbonate to dissolve. The more acidic the ocean, the faster the shells dissolve. By ...

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

While saving these species from extinction provides hope for the future, Dr Sophia Nicolov, AHRC Career Fellow and ...

The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...

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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