In 2024, just 47 people were hurt in unprovoked shark attacks – the lowest level in almost 30 years. In an average year, humans kill tens of millions of sharks. At the same time, about 70 people will ...

Ancient birds may have soared over their dinosaur relatives in the Late Jurassic. A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their ...

Today, the Natural History Museum, London, announced the first new permanent gallery to open since 2016, Fixing Our Broken Planet, which will open 3 April 2025. The gallery and a new programme of ...

In this workshop you’ll meet experts from policy, corporate, science and youth activism circles. Hear about their career journeys and discover just how many different ways there are to help save the ...

Explore the biggest challenges facing the planet and discover science-backed, hopeful solutions that will help us to create a more sustainable world. Free to enter. Get a free ticket to visit the ...

To understand the risk of zoonotic outbreaks, we need to create a more comprehensive understanding of local-scale infection dynamics. Here, we will sample small-bodied wild animals, domestic animals, ...

This project stems from the remainder of a Wellcome-funded Henry Dale fellowship and involves a multidisciplinary team working in three key areas: mathematical modelling, global animal disease ...

I graduated at the University of Turin (Italy) and completed two Masters and my PhD studies in Marseilles (France) before arriving at the Natural History Museum (NHM, London, UK) in 2002 with a ...

The DTRA-NK project will investigate the spread of vector-borne diseases in arid regions of northern Kenya and Nigeria. These include the Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVFV), the Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic ...

I am an invertebrate palaeontologist specialising in bryozoans. My main interest is in the evolution of this phylum of colonial animals and I undertake research on their taxonomy, biomineralogy and ...

Book your free Museum entry ticket online in advance. See how artists and scientists view the natural world through more than 100 images from the Museum's collection in the Images of Nature gallery.