A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the UK more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named Pararhincodon torquis, is a distant relative of the collared carpet sharks which ...

The Natural History Museum is pleased to announce that Tanuja Randery and Professor Kate Robson Brown have joined the Museum as Trustees.

Our six millionth specimen to be digitised is a ground beetle Calosoma sycophanta, known as the forest caterpillar hunter.

“ Calosoma sycophanta is a rare beetle in the UK that has been previously known to eat caterpillars - the young of adult moths. It's only through digitising the mouth parts of this beetle that we have ...

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Pufferfish have an iconic defence mechanism, but there’s more to these famous inflatables than meets the eye. Their potent poison has a fearsome reputation, linking daredevil diners, drug-user ...

Specialisms: Botanical collections, Island biogeography, Macaronesia, plant systematics, Acanthaceae, I am Principal Curator in Charge of the Algae, Fungi and Plants Division, managing the team ...

I am the science data architect for the Natural History Museum's Digital Collections Programme, which will ultimately digitise the museum's 80 million specimens and make the data available to the ...

The Museum’s digitisation team has undertaken a year-long project to digitise the giant butterfly-moths, also known as the Castniidae collection. Digitiser Glory Turnbull shares more. The Museum holds ...