Fearsome fishes, predatory plants | Natural History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business In April's #NHM_Live broadcast, scientists from the recent #DY100 expedition join us in the studio to share some of the deep sea specimens discovered, and we go behind the scenes with Dr Fred Rumsey for an introduction to the curious world of carnivorous plants. Watch more #NHM_Live broadcasts here: […]

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A whale of a time capsule | Natural History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business In summer 2017, a blue whale skeleton will be suspended in Hintze Hall. Conservation volunteer Patricia O'Brien tells us how crumpled newspapers have turned the skeleton into a historical treasure trove: Contact us to Add Your Business

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The Swindon stegosaur | Natural History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business Palaeontologist Prof Paul Barrett shows science communicator Dr Nick Crumpton the Museum’s Dacentrurus specimen, the first stegosaur specimen to be described. Find out how this unassuming fossil can help modern day palaeontologists make sense of new fossil findings. Discover more about the world's most complete Stegosaurus: . Contact us […]

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How the Neanderthals got their big noses | Natural History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business Human origins expert Prof Chris Stringer introduces research on a Museum fossil that helps explain why Neanderthal faces look different to our own. Find out more about the study and what it revealed: Contact us to Add Your Business

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The stories behind the Museum’s Treasures | Natural History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business Discover how the Treasures in the Cadogan Gallery encapsulate the drama and history of the over 70 million specimens in our collections. From the fossil of Archaeopteryx to the first edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, each exhibit tells a remarkable story and has been chosen for […]

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The fish that’s also a pearl | Natural History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business Pearls are the result of a mollusc's reaction to irritants such as parasites that enter its shell. Although model pearls are perfectly round and smooth, in reality they come in a huge number of shapes and sizes. Watch Andreia Salvador, Curator of Marine Mollusca, take a look at one […]

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Pictures worth a thousand words – art, nature and imaging | Natural History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business The artworks of the early natural historians weren't just beautiful to look at, they were also the documentary evidence of the plants and animals they had observed. In our film, Museum experts discuss the importance that historical images had, and still have today, and the state-of-the-art techniques that are […]

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Are ghosts real? | Natural History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business Are ghosts real? From studying ancient DNA and our own it looks like they might really exist – although they may not be quite what you'd expect. Website: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: The Natural History Museum in London is home to over 80 million specimens, including meteorites, dinosaur bones and […]

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