By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars’ barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...

The mounds lie north of a feature of Mars known as the Martian dichotomy, where the towering, ancient highlands of the ...

The Natural History Museum (NHM) today announces the appointment of Jessica Bradford as its first Director of Collections. She will be key in leading the Museum's collections and acquisitions strategy ...

New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction.

“Both eyes can peer out from underneath the notch, giving a greater view of their surroundings while still partially shielded ...

Grab the family and come to our new Dino Disco where you can don a set of headphones and dance the evening away. With tunes ...

This is one of the best known of all Cretaceous echinoids and has formed the basis for classic microevolutionary studies. Stokes (1975), Ernst (1970, 1972), Maczynska (1968) and Fouray (1981) deal in ...

The herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant. The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated in Europe at the time of ...

The electronic bulletin board for European avian curators is an online community of European bird curators and associates who look after the vast collections of bird specimens in museums and ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...