Packed with contemporary science from our world-leading researchers, our new gallery explores practical, nature-based solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the planet today.

‘No Access’, British photographer Ian Wood’s perfectly timed capture of an ambling Eurasian badger glancing up at some rather ...

It struck a chord with the public, who crowned the image of this black-and-white art connoisseur as the People’s Choice ...

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.

The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...

Birds have many features that distinguish them from other animals alive today, but their earliest ancestors looked noticeably different from the familiar creatures we’ve come to recognise. Although ...

I am a specialist on the taxonomy of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, and have spent much time in the field in Central and South America collecting plants. My particular focus of research is the ...

I am a Merit Researcher in Cosmic Mineralogy and Planetary Sciences. My team and I are interested in the formation of the Solar System and the formation and evolution of moons of the terrestrial ...

Evoking atmosphere and a sense of place - with the habitat as a major element of the picture – to convey how an animal is an integral part of its environment. Tamara Stubbs (UK) spots these crabeater ...