While animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion, in a period known as the Ediacaran, they’ve been hard to study as they rarely fossilise. Generally, the only reminders of these animals are trace ...

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There are two species of seahorse in the British Isles – the short-snouted seahorse and the spiny seahorse. Both species are mostly found along the south and west coasts of England and Wales but have ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year The sixty-first exhibition will open at the Museum in October 2025. Sign up to be among the first to find out when tickets go on sale in August.

The extinct reptiles that dominated our planet over 66 million years ago have long captured our imaginations. As more is understood about dinosaurs, for the most part, our perceptions of them have ...

Get a free ticket to visit the Museum and skip the queues. South Kensington, London. Download a map. We’re facing a nature crisis, but there’s hope Packed with contemporary science from our ...

Titanosaurs were the biggest dinosaurs in the world The biggest dinosaurs of all were titanosaurs. They were one of the last surviving groups of sauropods when the asteroid that caused the non-avian ...

For millions of years, parents across the animal kingdom have cared for their eggs and young, providing both time and resources, sometimes to their own detriment. Dinosaurs were no exception. Becky ...

Find out when the first birds appeared, what they looked like and how they behaved. Learn about the wonderchicken, as well as the earliest bird-like animals such as Archaeopteryx and Anchiornis.