It turns out that the shape of the skull in bat species is related to the specific frequencies of sonar that they produce. This in turn is often influenced by the way in which they emit sound for ...

During photosynthesis, trees convert the carbon dioxide to sugars and in doing so produce oxygen as a biproduct, which is vital for life on Earth. “Trees draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ...

Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has estimated the value of this ecosystem service at billions of pounds every year, ...

The combination of materials and the construction methods can sometimes exacerbate the effects of damage. This damage can be seen on these specimens as cracking, flaking skin, shrinkage tears in the ...

They have a fabricated internal structure, with the preserved skin of a rhino covering it, arranged in a pose that imitates life. The skin, hair and toenails all came from a real rhino, while the ...

Over this time, wolves have had to endure numerous changes in the planet’s climate. The cycles of the Ice Ages repeatedly changed their habitat and available prey, providing an insight into how modern ...

A new species of crocodylomorph dating to around 215 million years ago has been described from the UK. It has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones, a secondary school ...

Following the first wild release of beavers in England on the National Trust’s Purbeck Estate last year, more beavers are now ...

Dr Douglas Gurr, the Natural History Museum’s Director, says, “No matter where you are in the world, it’s time to join the jury and vote in the Nuveen People’s Choice Award to select the photograph ...

In 2025, Natural History Museum curators, researchers and scientific associates have described 262 new species and published over 700 research papers, while also breaking ground on a new ...

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 ...

An investigation into the biodiversity of a deep-sea mining exploration zone before and after the trial of a deep-sea mining machine finds that the number of animals within the mining tracks decreased ...