In 2024, just 47 people were hurt in unprovoked shark attacks – the lowest level in almost 30 years. In an average year, humans kill tens of millions of sharks. At the same time, about 70 people will ...

Ancient birds may have soared over their dinosaur relatives in the Late Jurassic. A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their ...

Today, the Natural History Museum, London, announced the first new permanent gallery to open since 2016, Fixing Our Broken Planet, which will open 3 April 2025. The gallery and a new programme of ...

Packed with contemporary science from our world-leading researchers, our new gallery explores practical, nature-based ...

In this workshop you’ll meet experts from policy, corporate, science and youth activism circles. Hear about their career journeys and discover just how many different ways there are to help save the ...

Book your free Museum entry ticket online in advance. See how artists and scientists view the natural world through more than 100 images from the Museum's collection in the Images of Nature gallery.

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 ...

At the Centre for Russian and Central EurAsian Mineral Studies (CERCAMS) I work on projects related to mineral deposit studies. I am involved in consultancy projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, ...

I am an invertebrate palaeontologist specialising in bryozoans. My main interest is in the evolution of this phylum of colonial animals and I undertake research on their taxonomy, biomineralogy and ...

The DTRA-NK project will investigate the spread of vector-borne diseases in arid regions of northern Kenya and Nigeria. These include the Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVFV), the Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic ...

To understand the risk of zoonotic outbreaks, we need to create a more comprehensive understanding of local-scale infection dynamics. Here, we will sample small-bodied wild animals, domestic animals, ...