A new study has revealed a network of touch-sensitive pits, known as a bill-tip organ, hidden inside the beaks of albatrosses ...

When a full Moon occurs at the closest point to Earth during its orbit, it appears larger and brighter, becoming what is commonly known as a 'supermoon'. A supermoon is widely recorded as being much ...

Find out the different ways scientists have of describing what species are, how they form and how many there are on Earth.

Select a scene to explore the whale's story, from the ocean to the Museum's collections to the historic Hintze Hall.

Rather than keeping oxygen in their lungs like humans do, whales' bodies are specially adapted to store oxygen in their blood and muscles. They have extraordinarily high levels of the oxygen-storing ...

Set 100 years into the future, our first mixed reality experience combines innovative technology and with expert science to ...

The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

I graduated at the University of Turin (Italy) and completed two Masters and my PhD studies in Marseilles (France) before arriving at the Natural History Museum (NHM, London, UK) in 2002 with a ...

The Sloane Herbarium contains volumes 1-7 of plant specimens collected on Sloane's voyage to Jamaica (1687-1689). During his voyage to Jamaica, Sir Hans Sloane collected the first plant specimens to ...

Find the current valid taxon for genus- and species-group names.

The plants and objects collected by Richard Spruce in the Amazon and Andes from 1849 to 1864 form an important botanical, historical and ethnological resource. One of the great Victorian botanical ...

Browse the oldest and most important entomology collection in the world with over 30 million insects. Gathered over 300 years, these specimens are key to telling the history of collecting, the science ...