Armed with kaleidoscopic eyesight, the ability to send secret messages and a punch so fast it can boil water, mantis shrimps are a force to be reckoned with. What is a mantis shri ...

Running from Monday 26 January to Sunday 19 April in the Museum’s Cranbourne Boutique shop, the free ticketed pop-up was extended to give more fans the chance to attend. Time slots are all fully ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

The discovery of new Ajkaceratops skull fossils has finally provided the evidence that shows ceratopsians did make it to Europe after all. The palaeontologists found that not only was this Hungarian ...

Following an extensive global search for candidates, the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, today announces the appointment of Dr Sandra (Sandy) Knapp OBE FRS as its first Director of Research.

Fossils of ceratopsian dinosaurs, the group containing Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs, have been vanishingly rare in Europe while being widespread across Asia and North America, until now. New ...

The new species of beetle has been named Macratria durrelli as a tribute to the famous naturalist Gerald Durrell. © Telnov, D. 2025. A museum scientist has paid homage to the renowned British ...

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 ...

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 ...

Large areas of the world could soon become unrecognisable if global temperatures continue to rise. From the loss of coral reefs to the shutdown of major ocean currents, shifts in Earth’s climate and ...

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 ...