This year we’re celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of our world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of arachnids – the group containing spiders and scorpions – were already ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

Soft tissues are preserved along one side of the metre-long flipper where it’s believed to have been pressed into the sediments of the seafloor shortly after the animal’s death. This provided an ...

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 ...

First 1,000 schools in England take students outside to participate in global biodiversity research We use cookies to give you the best online experience. We use them to improve our website and ...

The Natural History Museum and Marine Conservation Society are once again calling on people across the UK to head to the coast and take part in the Big Seaweed Search - a nationwide citizen science ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Our Trainee Teacher Days give student teachers an on-site, hands-on understanding of what makes a school trip both educational and unforgettable.

Human remains from across north-western Europe indicate that cannibalism was a funerary practice. ©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London ...

Spotted lanternflies have been hitchhiking their way across Asia and the United States for several years. But why do they keep hitting the headlines? An invasion of spotted lanternflies, Lycorma ...

Asian giant hornets are the largest social wasps in the world. Frequently referred to online and in the media as 'murder hornets', sightings of this species in North America, thousands of kilometres ...