Join us for a new family morning hosted by Captain Joe, our resident marine explorer, who’ll guide you through a series of ocean-themed activities. Junior oceanographers-in-training will begin with an ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year has launched its sixty-second competition, calling for entries from photographers across the globe of all nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels.

Book your tickets for our Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, which opens Friday 17 October 2025. In the image ...

Shifts in Earth’s climate and ecosystems will have untold consequences for billions of people across the world.

Almost three quarters of all vertebrates that have been driven extinct by humans lived on islands. The majority of these ...

South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever has been announced as Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 for his powerful image, ‘Ghost Town Visitor’. The competition’s Young Wildlife ...

As the stinkbugs lay their eggs, the scientists saw the females using the tip of their back legs to scratch its fungus-filled hindleg organs. They then smeared the egg with the fungus, which grew to ...

7,500 educational settings now taking part in the free National Education Nature Park programme ...

The event was hosted by the Natural History Museum’s Director Dr Doug Gurr, the Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, Secretary of State for Energy Security & Net Zero Ed Miliband, and Secretary of State ...

Andrea Dominizi (Italy) finds a longhorn beetle looking like a guard observing an intruder. Andrea noticed this longhorn ...

Celebrate the spookiest night of the year among skeletons and specimens. Following last year’s sellout event, Halloween at the Museum will be back again and better than ever. We’ll have a live band ...

There are roughly 400,000 species of beetle known to science, from miniscule insects less than half a millimetre long to giants longer than a chihuahua. Beetles - a group of insects also known as ...