Join us for a relaxed, out-of-hours experience filled with discovery, creativity and hands-on fun inspired by the mysteries of space. Touch meteorites, the original stones from the sky that were once ...

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 ...

Natural History Museum scientist Laura Molares Moncayo studies microbial life in the Arctic. © James Bradley Laura Molares Moncayo is one of our PhD students who was part of the research team that set ...

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 ...

A new sensor network using AWS technology will collect live data making the Museum gardens the most intensively studied urban nature site of its kind in the world Alongside thriving wildlife, the ...

Historically, steppe mammoths were thought to have evolved into the woolly mammoth in Eurasia around 700,000 years ago, and the Columbian mammoth in central and southern North America around 300,000 ...

It’s the first time insects preserved in amber have been found in South America, and makes the region one of just a handful where similar fossils from the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana ...