Moss carder bumblebees were once widespread across the UK, living in flower-rich meadows, marshes and heathland where they ...

From tomorrow, 16 September, a new free-to-visit gallery that looks at our evolving relationship with the natural world will ...

The 7-metre-long Baa-Ewe Tapestry, inspired by the iconic Bayeux Tapestry and featuring Shaun and friends, has been unveiled by Tom Daley at the Natural History Museum ahead of the cinema release of ...

A national blue plaque has been unveiled for palaeontologist Dorothea Bate at the Natural History Museum in Tring.

Research focuses on the evolutionary history of arthropods and the systematics of Chilopoda (centipedes). I am interested in the integration of morphological data for extant animals, information from ...

Join our spider-spotting team looking-out for 11 species, and build our understanding of how their populations are faring in ...

Many regions of the deep sea are currently being explored for the potential to mine them for minerals, but it is still largely unknown what actually lives on the seabed. Two new papers have looked at ...

Carcinogenic fuel, explosives and chemical weapons are leaking into the seas from sunken naval vessels. Analysis of a sunken Second World War ship in the North Sea shows it is affecting marine ...

Humans may have been driven to the brink of extinction within the past million years, new research suggests. While the claims of a population bottleneck could explain longstanding mysteries in ...

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, ...

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 ...

The sequencing of the oldest human DNA in the UK so far has shown that two distinct populations of humans lived in Britain following recolonisation at the end of the Ice Age. The two populations lived ...