Oscar Whitfield (Zimbabwe/UK) notices the arduous exertion of this dung beetle pushing its precious cargo. Using a fast ...

Federico Veronesi (Italy) witnesses a powerful moment of an elephant carrying a dead calf, a rare glimpse into complex animal ...

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 ...

Keeping a nature journal is a great way to record any nature you see, from plants in the park to a spider in your living room. Here we provide simple craft instructions so you can make your own ...

They may have been the ‘terrible lizards’, but even the most terrifying dinosaurs could have had a softer side when it came to putting in time and effort for their young. For millions of years, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hintze Hall is our largest public gallery. A blue whale skeleton is suspended from the ceiling as a reminder of humanity’s responsibility to protect our planet. It’s surrounded by specimens that ...

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, ...

They could beat a horse in a race and survive a blizzard. No challenge is too much for these butterflies and moths. Beating the competition is everything. It’s forced some species to grow faster, ...

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.

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 ...