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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Before dinosaurs evolved, back when the world was swampy and green 300 million years ago, giant dragonfly-like insects called griffinflies filled the skies. With wingspans that stretched up to a ...

Life on Earth is made possible by the water on our planet's surface. Even in the near-freezing deep sea, organisms are able to thrive. But are hydrothermal vents where life began? Hydrothermal vents, ...

Dark, dramatic and dead set on decomposition, soil is alive. Heaving with microbes, worms, fungi and insects, it’s a hive of activity right beneath our feet. Find out the dirt on soil’s drama. In just ...