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Natural History Museum

July 2024

  • A bronze diplodocus skeleton replica among trees and ferns in the garden

    Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum review – it’s a wondrous jungle out there

  • Skeleton staff … Fern, the new bronze replica of Dippy, oversees the garden.

    ‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden

May 2024

  • A person stands beneath the neck of a stegosaurus dinosaur fossil.

    ‘Virtually complete’ Stegosaurus fossil to be auctioned at Sotheby’s geek week

    The 11ft and tall and 20ft long fossil, nicknamed Apex, could fetch up to $6m as it’s celebrated as ‘one of the best unearthed’
  • Remnants of prehistoric worm Radnorscolex latus, unearthed in Herefordshire

    Remnants of prehistoric marine worm unearthed in Herefordshire

    Carnivorous predator Radnorscolex latus existed 425m years ago and caught prey with its retractable throat
  • A Guam rail

    Vampire finches and deadly tree snakes: how birds went worldwide – and their battles for survival

    A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London includes ‘tragic’ tales of species wiped out from their natural habitats

April 2024

  • A bumblebee on a toothwort.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A covert congregation has gathered in the wood

    Preston, Hertfordshire: In this place of nonconformist history, spikes of toothwort have risen from the soil, awaiting ants and bees

November 2023

  • Sample of asteroid Bennu © Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

    ‘It’s amazing’: scientists analyse 4.6bn-year-old dark dust from Bennu asteroid

  • The herbarium at Kew Gardens.

    ‘Cultural vandalism’: row as Kew Gardens and Natural History Museum plan to move collections out of London

  • Piltdown Man display, Natural History Museum, December 1953.

    From the Guardian archive
    Piltdown Man remains exposed as fake – archive, 1953

  • Kaffirboom coral(Erythrina caffra Thunb.)<br>BPB51R Vivid red flowers with blue sky as background. Kaffirboom coral (Erythrina caffra Thunb.)

    Hitler beetle, Trump moth, Beyoncé fly: is it time to rethink naming of species?

October 2023

  • Lee Berger, in a boiler suit and helmet, leaning against a moss-covered rock near ferns and gesturing with both hands

    ‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into space

  • A northern spotted owlet being held by biologist Mark Higley while being ringed by his assistant, Anthony Twofeathers Colegrove, a member of the Hoopa Valley tribe.

    ‘No easy answer’: the endangered owls that can only be saved by killing other owls

July 2023

  • Sir Patrick Vallance in the Museum’s Darwin Centre with whale bone remains.

    The age of extinction
    ‘This feels exactly the right place to be’: Sir Patrick Vallance on pandemics, eco-anxiety and leading the Natural History Museum

  • ‘A powerful reminder of just how vulnerable our natural world is’ … the Great Auk at the Natural History Museum, London.

    ‘Such a beautiful creature’: Chris Packham, Dan Snow and more on their favourite museum exhibit

June 2023

  • Vectipelta barretti

    Isle of Wight fossilised remains identified as new dinosaur species

    Creature has been named Vectipelta barretti after Prof Paul Barrett of London’s Natural History Museum

May 2023

  • Scapa Flow Museum on Hoy.

    Scapa Flow Museum showing Orkney island’s wartime role up for top prize

    UK museum of the year award has shortlist of five showing ‘astonishing ambition and boundless creativity’

April 2023

  • Robin Cocks

    Other lives
    Robin Cocks obituary

    Other lives: Head of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum and authority on fossil brachiopods

March 2023

  • A skull of a new hominin species named Homo naledi, which was alive sometime between 335 and 236 thousand years ago.

    New analysis of ancient human protein could unlock secrets of evolution

    The technique – known as proteomics – could bring new insights into the past two million years of humanity’s history

February 2023

  • The Geological Society of London met in 1954 to discuss the Piltdown Man forgery.

    From Piltdown Man to anti-vaxxers ... What science’s worst hoaxes can teach us

  • A juvenile female footballfish (possibly Himantolophus melanophus), a type of anglerfish. The white spots on the body are sensory organs that help the footballfish detect prey.

    Discovered in the deep
    Discovered in the deep: the anglerfish with vampire-like sex lives

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