Summer is a busy, noisy time for insects. The season’s long, sunny days are filled with their sounds. Crickets are singing loudly to serenade a mate, the calls of water boatmen are reverberating ...

The latest in the Museum’s free contemporary art programme, Arcadia by Sir John Akomfrah, opens November 6; John Akomfrah’s ...

Discover the microscopic dimensions of the smallest moths on the planet. With a wingspan of just 2.5 millimetres, Stigmella maya is one of the most petite moths known to science. But just how ...

They may have been the ‘terrible lizards’, but even the most terrifying dinosaurs could have had a softer side when it came to putting in time and effort for their young. For millions of years, ...

Life on Earth is made possible by the water on our planet's surface. Even in the near-freezing deep sea, organisms are able to thrive. But are hydrothermal vents where life began? Hydrothermal vents, ...

The outline of Britain familiar to us today is a brief snapshot of a continually changing land. Discover how the reshaping of the landscape over the past million years affected the presence of humans.

They could beat a horse in a race and survive a blizzard. No challenge is too much for these butterflies and moths. Beating the competition is everything. It’s forced some species to grow faster, ...

Famous fossil hunter Mary Anning found more than just extinct animals on Dorset’s coastline. Coprolites are the fossilised faeces of animals that lived millions of years ago. They’re trace fossils, ...

Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars. Becoming a butterfly is a dangerous game, and it's easy for caterpillars to fall victim to some ...

It’s been more than half a century since humans last walked on the Moon, but we’re on the verge of doing so again. NASA’s ambitious Artemis programme aims to build the first lunar space station, so we ...

Beetles are everywhere,” points out Max Barclay, our Senior Curator of Coleoptera, in his new book Interesting Beetles. Somehow picking from the more than 400,000 described species and the 10 million ...

Before dinosaurs evolved, back when the world was swampy and green 300 million years ago, giant dragonfly-like insects called griffinflies filled the skies. With wingspans that stretched up to a ...