The slender-billed curlew was a species of wading bird last officially seen three decades ago. Despite the occasional ...

One of the key features of the dinosaurs is that they walked upright. Rather than having their legs out to the side, like in ...

The largest proportion of risk was focused in the Indian Ocean, where around 22% of whale strike hotspots were found. This is ...

A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.

Rising temperatures are pushing many species to the brink, alongside disease, pollution and unsustainable fishing.

Within days it transpired that Giuliana had recorded an invasive species not seen in the UK for almost two decades and in the ...

Regular sea urchins have a pentaradially symmetrical test composed of ten double columns of plates, five interambulacral zones and five ambulacral zones, which together make up the corona. Ambulacral ...

The fossil bird, which has been named Navaornis hestiae, lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, ...

In recognition of the high standard of entries, 25 extra images were selected by the Natural History Museum and put to the public vote. Early in the morning, Mark watched as these lionesses groomed ...

I am a molecular evolutionary biologist who works with museum collections, archaeological and paleontological material. I use modern and ancient DNA, together with protein and isotope data, to ...

The Natural History Museum has today answered the billion-year-long question - how does a Tyrannosaurus rex wear a Christmas ...

Can you find Dippy's nostrils? What feature does Diplodocus share with humans but few other dinosaurs? Rotate, zoom in and explore the features of this popular dinosaur.