The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) today released its members visitor figures for the year 2024, revealing that whilst the typical attraction in London saw a 3% increase in visitors ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

In seabirds, the evidence is clearer. Nanoplastics have been linked with organ damage in sable shearwaters and are known to ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

What most of us would recognise as a jellyfish - the otherworldly, gelatinous aquatic animals renowned for their sting-filled tentacles - is actually just the final stage of these animals' life cycle.

I am interested in the ecology and systematics of soil and litter macrofauna, particularly termites, ants, earthworms and beetles. My research has mostly been in forest ecosystems, tropical and ...

Genetic changes that can increase the yield of one crop don’t necessarily work for others, even if they’re close relatives.

Killer whales (also called orcas) are apex predators, meaning they are at the top of their food chain. They feed on fish and squid like other odontocetes (toothed whales) do, but will also target ...

The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

While many people might leap at the chance of an adventure, deep sea scientist Dr María Belén Arias Mella was on holiday and ...