Enjoy unrivalled views of the Museum’s famous architecture, browse our selection of incredible specimens in the Cabinet of Curiosities, and see copies of Mary Anning's original sketches and letters on ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is active from late December 2024 to early January 2025. It will peak on 3–4 January. Read on for tips on how to catch the best view of this stunning shower from planetary ...

Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named ...

A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...

Our species mated with the Neanderthals much later than thought. New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens ...

Study argues that by the time of H. sapiens expansion, differentiation between the two species had occurred to the point where they were distinguishable species. Advocating the former, Chris Stringer ...

A previously unknown rock type at the future landing site of the European Space Agency’s new Mars rover is revealing more about the red planet. The rock is believed to have come from an ancient ...

Tyrannosaurs once roamed what is now the southern coast of England. Fossil teeth uncovered in East Sussex have provided the first evidence of these dinosaurs in this region from the Early Cretaceous ...

The fossilised lizard was found in Cromhall Quarry, southwest England Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile The fossilised lizard was found in Cromhall Quarry, southwest ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

Pliocene, New Zealand; Recent, Indo-Pacific and Atlantic. Differs from Asthenosoma in having large membranous gaps at the outer end of genital plates through which the gonopores open, and with sparser ...