From tomorrow, 16 September, a new free-to-visit gallery that looks at our evolving relationship with the natural world will ...

The 7-metre-long Baa-Ewe Tapestry, inspired by the iconic Bayeux Tapestry and featuring Shaun and friends, has been unveiled by Tom Daley at the Natural History Museum ahead of the cinema release of ...

Join our spider-spotting team looking-out for 11 species, and build our understanding of how their populations are faring in ...

A national blue plaque has been unveiled for palaeontologist Dorothea Bate at the Natural History Museum in Tring.

A newly discovered dinosaur is shining a light on an important moment in the evolution of dinosaurs. Discovered on the shore of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, Musango matusadonaensis opens a window into the ...

An unassuming fragment of fossil bone collected four decades ago has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur bone ever discovered on Antarctica. Today, Antarctica is known for its thick ice cap ...

The Natural History Museum was the UK’s most-visited attraction in 2025, welcoming more than 7.1 million visitors to its famous building in South Kensington. The figures represent an all-time record ...

Centuries after they were wiped out, the reintroduction of beavers to the UK is gathering pace. Following a government announcement allowing beavers to be released in the wild, a flurry of ...

Fossils of ceratopsian dinosaurs, the group containing Triceratops and its relatives, are widespread across the northern hemisphere. However, they’re curiously absent from Europe. New research reveals ...

Evoking atmosphere and a sense of place – with the habitat as a major element of the picture – to convey how an animal is an integral part of its environment. Bertie Gregory (UK) freeze-frames the ...

Amber discovered in Ecuador has opened a window onto Earth’s distant past. Flies, wasps and other insects were among the invertebrates living in a humid forest over 110 million years ago. Insects that ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record. New research, however, suggests that many of ...