Packed with contemporary science from our world-leading researchers, our new gallery explores practical, nature-based ...

Finding out exactly when feathers evolved, and which animals had them, could offer important new insights into the distant past.

‘No Access’, British photographer Ian Wood’s perfectly timed capture of an ambling Eurasian badger glancing up at some rather ...

Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2024, just 47 people were hurt in unprovoked shark attacks – the lowest level in almost 30 years. In an average year, humans kill tens of millions of sharks. At the same time, about 70 people will ...

“Birds-of-paradise are a charismatic group that has evolved numerous plumage traits that aid in signalling and reproduction,” says Rene. “They’ve evolved bright metallic-looking feathers that shine ...

This 5-lesson course, suitable for KS2 classes and co-created with the LEGO Group, explores how humans impact the planet, using the example of birds. Watch short clips of Greta Thunberg, Museum ...

Gentle giant or fierce meat-eater: which dinosaur shared your habits? Answer these questions to find out.

The geographic, stratigraphic and historical coverage of the seven million vertebrate, invertebrate and plant fossils in the Museum's palaeontology collection make it globally important. Our ...

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 ...