The early mammals living alongside the dinosaurs might have all had dark-coloured fur. Living a nocturnal lifestyle, the ...

In seabirds, the evidence is clearer. Nanoplastics have been linked with organ damage in sable shearwaters and are known to ...

Genetic changes that can increase the yield of one crop don’t necessarily work for others, even if they’re close relatives.

While many people might leap at the chance of an adventure, deep sea scientist Dr María Belén Arias Mella was on holiday and ...

Find answers to your big nature questions. Delve into stories about our research, scientists and the collections we care for. Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the ...

The Natural History Museum Ice Rink has now closed. After an incredible 16 years of ice skating at the Museum, the five-acre gardens on which the rink used to sit have now been transformed into a hub ...

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 ...

Discover what you can see and do in our free galleries, and where you can eat, drink and shop across the Museum. Whether you're visiting us for the first time or the fiftieth, these self-guided tours ...

The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

Search the Museum's digital collections for botanical specimens.

There’s always incredible variety in the work of a curator with each day different from the next. Much of this work goes on behind the scenes at the Museum and is unseen. It’s important to share these ...