Background and aims – Over 40 years ago, I explored the use of symmetry and structure as taxonomic criteria for naviculoid diatoms, arguing that structure was the more informative character. This pape...

Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existence

The UK's Natural History Museum has launched a project to protect seaweed farming in southeast Asia from the worst impacts of climate change.

Dr Sophia Nicolov explores what the Museum’s whale, dolphin and porpoise collection can tell us about Britain’s role in whaling.

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species looked.

Can friendships between three people work?

YouTube video by The Geological Society

Join Dr Victoria J. Burton (Natural History Museum) to hear abou using citizen science to gain insights into UK urban earthworm communities.

Looking fit is no guarantee of health for one of the world’s most plastic polluted birds.

Palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum who was also a bestselling science writer and accomplished TV presenter

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick Instit...

A phylogenetic comparative analysis of male and female body size across tetrapods globally shows that directional change in size is usually greater in males but reveals different underlying mechanisms...

Do you want to be part of an exciting programme enabling critical research into biodiversity and climate change? Do you have technical and project management skills? Come and join us as the new Techni...

Conch snails make death-defying leaps to evade deadly predators.

What is FameLab UK?FameLab UK is a science communication competition and sees the best new voices in science from around the country compete against one an

Georgina Mace proposed bending the curve of biodiversity loss as a fitting ambition for the Convention on Biological Diversity. The new Global Biodiversity Monitoring Framework (GBMF) may increase the...