Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? will take you on an interstellar adventure like no other. Rocketing you from Earth’s most ...

Mosura fentoni was a trailblazer for modern arthropods, developing adaptations that some crustaceans and arachnids re-evolved ...

While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the first truly terrestrial vertebrates. Some of these animals, known as the ...

Being better able to tolerate cooler temperatures than their rivals, tyrannosaurs grew larger to become the apex predators of the Late Cretaceous. By 68 million years ago, T. rex was 12 metres long ...

The UK’s biodiversity is among the most thoroughly documented in the world. However, key biodiversity metrics indicate that ...

Since the late 1800s, koala numbers have declined dramatically, but it is not only their numbers that are disappearing. A recent analysis has shown that the variation of genes within koalas has also ...

Touch a piece of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a piece of Mars and enjoy a day out-of-this-world at the Natural History Museum’s new family exhibition all about the search for life in space.

Seaweeds are some of the most important organisms on Earth. They lock up carbon dioxide, sustain life in the sea and support multi-billion-pound industries. Their existence, however, is under threat.

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...