Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The evidence at Gough's Cave points to a sophisticated culture of butchering and ...

This overgrazing by deer and other herbivores has held back the recovery of woodlands, peatlands and heathlands across the ...

From today, visitors to London’s Natural History Museum can get up close to the Xenomorph egg from FX’s highly anticipated upcoming series, Alien: Earth. Visitors and fans alike can bear witness to ...

Wasps may sometimes interrupt our picnics, but they have important benefits for your garden and the countryside, from natural pest control to pollinating flowers.

Scientists are retracing the journeys of century-old Antarctic expeditions to discover how the Earth has changed.

A human species arrived on the island of Sulawesi in southeast Asia more than 800,000 years earlier than previously known.

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

“We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from.” The paper describing the hybridisation event has been published in the journal Cell. Domestic potatoes are incredibly diverse, but it ...

Since their transformation and reopening in July 2024, the Natural History Museum’s gardens have welcomed over five million visitors i n just 12 months, cementing their place as one of central ...