California condors – known scientifically as Gymnogyps californianus – are imposing vultures. They’re the largest bird ...

A new study has revealed a network of touch-sensitive pits, known as a bill-tip organ, hidden inside the beaks of albatrosses ...

Find out the different ways scientists have of describing what species are, how they form and how many there are on Earth.

Search the Museum's digital collections for botanical specimens.

Late Eocene to Recent; very widespread in tropical to temperate regions. One of the commonest fossil echinoids in the Tertiary. Many nominal species have been described, but only two others have the ...

Edited by Dr. Andrew B. Smith & Dr. Andreas Kroh, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria ...

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

Set 100 years into the future, our first mixed reality experience combines innovative technology and with expert science to ...

With over one million specimens and representing 95% of bird species, the bird collections are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world. The museum’s large collection of amphibians and ...

Can you find Dippy's nostrils? What feature does Diplodocus share with humans but few other dinosaurs? Rotate, zoom in and explore the features of this popular dinosaur.

Get hands on with real Museum specimens at this special event for blind and partially sighted children and their families.

The scientific name for fleas is Siphonaptera, which comes from the Greek words 'siphon', meaning pipe, and 'aptera', meaning wingless, relating to the sucking mouthparts and wingless condition of ...