Soft tissues are preserved along one side of the metre-long flipper where it’s believed to have been pressed into the sediments of the seafloor shortly after the animal’s death. This provided an ...

Our Trainee Teacher Days give student teachers an on-site, hands-on understanding of what makes a school trip both educational and unforgettable.

A BioBlitz is an exciting, hands-on event where scientists and the visitors of all ages team up to record as many different species as possible in a set time. A fast-paced wildlife survey, part ...

While animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion, in a period known as the Ediacaran, they’ve been hard to study as they rarely fossilise. Generally, the only reminders of these animals are trace ...

First 1,000 schools in England take students outside to participate in global biodiversity research We use cookies to give you the best online experience. We use them to improve our website and ...

These bone-eating communities are ancient, and have been on Earth for at least 100 million years. Before whales existed, bone-eating worms were eating into the skeletons of mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs and ...

The Natural History Museum and Marine Conservation Society are once again calling on people across the UK to head to the coast and take part in the Big Seaweed Search - a nationwide citizen science ...

About the Manual of Afrotropical Diptera project The Manual of Afrotropical Diptera provides an up-to-date, well-illustrated, interpretable means for identifying families and genera of two-winged ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Starfish are some of the most recognisable animals in the world. But their simple appearance belies an evolutionary mystery - how did these animals evolve such an unusual shape? A new fossil discovery ...

By combing the details preserved by both fossils, Victor and a team of scientists concluded that the animal was an extinct species new to science. Sphenodraco scandentis appears to be the earliest ...