7,500 educational settings now taking part in the free National Education Nature Park programme ...

Almost three quarters of all vertebrates that have been driven extinct by humans lived on islands. The majority of these ...

New analysis shows that the vast majority of the areas we depend on for our survival aren’t being well looked after.

Book a free tactile tour or a hands-on workshop designed for adults with additional needs. Get up close to real specimens, enjoy crafts or take an audio-described highlights tour.

Leading seaweed scientists from Malaysia and the UK and officials from the Department of Fisheries Sabah are meeting with more than 50 stakeholders this week to propose a new Progressive Management ...

Developed by NHM researchers, the BII is widely recognised as the most scientifically robust measure of ecosystem health. The BII tracks how biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems is affected by human ...

Beloved actor Bryan Cranston takes to our stage to reflect on the role that defined a generation of television. He’ll talk about his unforgettable portrayal of Walter White, the mild-mannered ...

As Arctic winter warming events become more common, researchers are witnessing the melting landscape first-hand.

The domestication of wolves took place over a long period of time. Ancient bones roughly 15,000 years old of dogs that we’d recognise today have been discovered in various locations. Although the ...

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species to our own lineage. Therefore, if the Denisovans split off over a million ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that woolly mammoths and Columbian mammoths repeatedly interbred in North America, reshaping our understanding of how these Ice Age giants evolved in response to ...