The latest in the Museum’s free contemporary art programme, Arcadia by Sir John Akomfrah, opens November 6; John Akomfrah’s ...

Nature’s spectacular colour palette reaches every corner of the world, from mountain tops to ocean beds. But while some bright colours last for hundreds or even thousands of years, this isn’t always ...

The outline of Britain familiar to us today is a brief snapshot of a continually changing land. Discover how the reshaping of the landscape over the past million years affected the presence of humans.

Take a thrilling deep dive back in time into ancient waters with this monstrous exhibition.

Discover the microscopic dimensions of the smallest moths on the planet. With a wingspan of just 2.5 millimetres, Stigmella maya is one of the most petite moths known to science. But just how ...

Famous fossil hunter Mary Anning found more than just extinct animals on Dorset’s coastline. Coprolites are the fossilised faeces of animals that lived millions of years ago. They’re trace fossils, ...

Lord Lionel Walter, Baron Rothschild, was born into a prominent banking family, but he had little interest in finance. Instead he pursued his childhood passion for collecting natural history specimens ...

From slow, plant-eating giants to fierce scavengers and hunters, dinosaurs once dominated the land. Search our alphabetical list, or explore dinosaurs by when and where they lived or what type they ...

Summer is a busy, noisy time for insects. The season’s long, sunny days are filled with their sounds. Crickets are singing loudly to serenade a mate, the calls of water boatmen are reverberating ...

There are roughly 400,000 species of beetle known to science, from miniscule insects less than half a millimetre long to giants longer than a chihuahua. Beetles - a group of insects also known as ...

Spring is an important time of year for birds to get cracking laying eggs and raising chicks. But first they need to build their nests. Each species of bird brings its own style to its nest making.

Most of us probably associate fish with swimming but there’s a few species that actually choose walking as their preferred method of getting around. One group of species that takes a stroll along the ...