This overgrazing by deer and other herbivores has held back the recovery of woodlands, peatlands and heathlands across the ...

Scientists are retracing the journeys of century-old Antarctic expeditions to discover how the Earth has changed.

From today, visitors to London’s Natural History Museum can get up close to the Xenomorph egg from FX’s highly anticipated upcoming series, Alien: Earth. Visitors and fans alike can bear witness to ...

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction.

A human species arrived on the island of Sulawesi in southeast Asia more than 800,000 years earlier than previously known.

The presence of other dinosaur footprints among the ceratopsians has led researchers to believe that these trackways could ...

The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of arachnids – the group containing spiders and scorpions – were already ...

With up to a 97% hunting success rate, dragonflies are one of the top predators on Earth. In the UK, dragonflies are a ...

“We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from.” The paper describing the hybridisation event has been published in the journal Cell. Domestic potatoes are incredibly diverse, but it ...

The potato came from a chance natural interbreeding event between the ancestors of today’s tomatoes and those of a closely related group called Etuberosum.

Find the Jurassic World Rebirth pop-up shop space at the back of our main shop, just off Hintze Hall. The space is free to visit, but you can book a free admission ticket to the Museum to guarantee ...