The Latest Breaking News from the Natural History Museum

The winning museum will be announced at a ceremony held in the British Museum in London on July 12.

UK museum of the year award has shortlist of five showing ‘astonishing ambition and boundless creativity’

Schoolgirl Cydney Root, 12, found a tooth which once belonged to a fearsome megaladon, the largest shark to ever live in the world's oceans which could fit two humans in its mouth

Kangaroos, koalas and other marsupials are even weirder than we give them credit for.

Young Londoners shared in the breaking of the Ramadan fast at an interfaith Iftar held for the first time at the Natural History Museum on Monday.

The breaking of the Ramadan fast, the iftar meal, has become more than just an accepted part of our country’s calendar, it is celebrated as part of our British identity. But for many Muslims organising these events, they are starting to question how their positive actions of bringing communities together…

Living in the twilight zone, cockeye squid float between two worlds and have adapted to keep an eye on both

Plus! AI helps ID British therizinosaur by dental records, Tech & Science Daily speak to the Natural History Museum’s Simon Wills

‘Two large bags of dry paint’ seized from campaigners, who jumped over barrier around famous dinosaur cast

Paleontologists have confirmed that a rock enclosing a perfectly round agate crystal is actually a titanosaur egg, which was probably smothered by lava after a volcanic eruption 67 million years ago.

Other lives: Head of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum and authority on fossil brachiopods