As 2026 approaches, you might be starting to think about your New Year’s resolutions. The start of a new year offers the perfect opportunity to pick up new skills and introduce new habits, ...
The new species of beetle has been named Macratria durrelli as a tribute to the famous naturalist Gerald Durrell. © Telnov, D. 2025. A museum scientist has paid homage to the renowned British ...
Our researcher and armoured dinosaur expert Susannah Maidment is here to tell us more.
Seals are semi-aquatic marine mammals. They’re also known as pinnipeds, which means ‘fin-footed’, referring to the large flippers they have for arms and legs. Combined with their streamlined, ...
Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...
The skeletal remains of this Roman-aged female individual were uncovered in the collections of Eastbourne Town Hall in 2012. Subsequent research suggested her origins were in sub-Saharan Africa; ...
Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...
An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, morphological and molecular analysis. AMISTAD, a new collections-based research ...
The controlled use of fire is one of the reasons our species was able to survive and spread around the world. But the newly unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making shows that we were not the ...
A group of tree-dwelling toads that give birth to live young have been discovered. Although these toads dwell high in the mountain forests of Tanzania, museum specimens have helped reveal a hidden ...
Large areas of the world could soon become unrecognisable if global temperatures continue to rise. From the loss of coral reefs to the shutdown of major ocean currents, shifts in Earth’s climate and ...
Newly discovered fossils reveal that Spicomellus afer’s skeleton was covered in spikes, some fused to the animal’s skeleton, measuring as much as a metre long Newly discovered fossils reveal that ...
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