Specialisms: Botanical collections, Island biogeography, Macaronesia, plant systematics, Acanthaceae, I am Principal Curator in Charge of the Algae, Fungi and Plants Division, managing the team ...

The Museum’s digitisation team has undertaken a year-long project to digitise the giant butterfly-moths, also known as the Castniidae collection. Digitiser Glory Turnbull shares more.

[23 April 2025, London UK] – The Natural History Museum has today announced a brand-new immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough, opening to audiences on 19 June 2025.

Visitors to the Natural History Museum, London, can now get up close to a rare, crystallised gold specimen, nicknamed the Dragon due to its spectacular appearance. Considered to be one of the finest ...

Documentary heritage relating to the life and work of Charles Darwin has been recognised on the prestigious UNESCO International Memory of the World Register, highlighting its critical importance to ...

Over his life, Charles Darwin rose to become one of the most famous scientists in the world.

Find answers to your big nature questions. Delve into stories about our research, scientists and the collections we care for. Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the ...

For a brief period of a few weeks in the summer, male stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) fly in search of a mate. They use their spectacular jaws to wow the ladies and conduct dramatic duels with their ...

Taforalt cave, also called Grotte des Pigeons, is a globally important site. It contains the graves of over 30 ancient humans ...

Marmoretta is a stem lepidosaur, an early relative of the group containing all lizards and snakes as well as an unusual reptile known as the tuatara. Lepidosaurs are one of the two main reptile groups ...

The Natural History Museum hosted a formal ceremony on 10 April 2025 with Australia’s Department of Infrastructure, Transport ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species ...