This overgrazing by deer and other herbivores has held back the recovery of woodlands, peatlands and heathlands across the ...

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

Scientists are retracing the journeys of century-old Antarctic expeditions to discover how the Earth has changed.

Since last being sighted in 1662, the dodo has become the symbol of extinction.

From today, visitors to London’s Natural History Museum can get up close to the Xenomorph egg from FX’s highly anticipated upcoming series, Alien: Earth. Visitors and fans alike can bear witness to ...

A human species arrived on the island of Sulawesi in southeast Asia more than 800,000 years earlier than previously known.

Wasps may sometimes interrupt our picnics, but they have important benefits for your garden and the countryside, from natural pest control to pollinating flowers.

The presence of other dinosaur footprints among the ceratopsians has led researchers to believe that these trackways could ...

The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of arachnids – the group containing spiders and scorpions – were already ...

The Cretaceous Period lasted for nearly 80 million years. Discover what the climate was like in this geological period, where the continents were and what animals and plants lived on them. Find out ...

The Natural History Museum's blue whale is more than 100 years old. Explore the fascinating story of its life before the Museum, when it roamed the oceans.

My research focuses primarily on the palaeobiology of the ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaurs. I work on the systematics and taxonomy of all major ornithischian clades, and have current research ...