The high-tech network of environmental sensors in the Natural History Museum’s (NHM) Nature Discovery Garden, supported by The Cadogan Charity, has collected more than 11 millio ...

Electric eels are remarkable, snake-like fish with the power to deliver electric shocks to defend themselves, hunt, navigate and even communicate with one another. But how does their amazing ability ...

From slow, plant-eating giants to fierce scavengers and hunters, dinosaurs once dominated the land. Search our alphabetical list, or explore dinosaurs by when and where they lived or what type they ...

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) comes from both natural sources (including volcanoes, the breath of animals and plant decay) and human sources (primarily the burning of fossils fuels like coal, oil and natural ...

Researcher in Petrology and Mineral Deposits in the Mineralogy and Origin of Ore Deposits Group of the Economic and Environmental Mineralogy Division, since July 2012 part of the Museum’s Department ...

Explore our galleries and grounds through hands-on activities inspired by fossil hunter Dorothea Bate’s remarkable work. Dorothea was a pioneering scientist and our Officer in Charge at Tring from ...

We’ve prized sticky, sugary-sweet honey for thousands of years, but how do honeybees make this golden marvel and is it good for us? We have one small insect to thank for our UK supermarket aisles ...

An expedition to some of the Earth's deepest ocean trenches has broken records for deep-sea fish. The team has taken the deepest recording of any fish, as well as the first individuals caught below ...

Centuries of farming, building and industry have made the UK one of the most nature-depleted countries in Europe. Extensive agricultural lands and road networks, in combination with other factors, ...

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 ...

A new paper challenges the traditional idea that our species evolved from a single population in one region of Africa. Where did our species come from? It's a question we still don't have the answer ...

The controlled use of fire is one of the reasons our species was able to survive and spread around the world. But the newly unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making shows that we were not the ...