Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) today released its members visitor figures for the year 2024, revealing that whilst the typical attraction in London saw a 3% increase in visitors ...

Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

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

Today the Natural History Museum announced its new family blockbuster exhibition, Space: Could life exist beyond Earth? proudly sponsored by Jupiter Asset Management.

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 ...

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 ...

The Museum is scanning its collection of whale specimens so that the data is easier to handle and accessible to researchers around the world. For the first time, scientists have an image of what ...

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Our newest exhibition transports you to distant worlds as you explore space in the search for life.