Nature News headlines from the Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum is on of the largest museums in London and one of the foremost Natural History Museums in the world. It houses 70 million specimens over many floors in an elegant building. Its collections span five main themes - Botany, Zoology, Entomology, Paleantology and Mineralogy. Its website has a full online news service about the natural news as well as full information on its latest exhibitions.

Natural History Museum news

Museum beetle expert to give TED talk

Max Barclay collecting beetles on a rainforest tree at Pantiacolla, Alto Madre de Dios, Peru,

Natural History Museum's beetle expert Max Barclay looks after 10 million beetles and will be speaking at TEDx Albertopolis in Sept 2013.

Clearest picture yet of oldest primate

Illustration of the ancient primate from 55 million years ago. It was a relative of today's tarsiers

Scientists have got the clearest picture yet of one of the oldest primate ancestors. Natural History Museum scientist Jerry Hooker comments on the reserach, June 2013.

3D TV night at the Natural History Museum planned

Frog

Written and presented by Attenborough himself, Attenborough's Natural History Museum Adventure, London, will air on Sky 3D in Dec 2013.

Angry bird's unique wing weapon revealed

Artist and author Julian Hume's painting of two solitaire birds fighting.

Natural History Museum scientists have discovered that a strange ball on the wing of the extinct solitaire bird was in fact a deadly weapon, May 2013.

Blooming Marvellous exhibition opens at the Museum at Tring

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image of a strawberry

Blooming Marvellous is an exhibition opening at the Natural History Museum at Tring today 24 May 2013, which reveals 400 years of botanical art that helped scientists learn about plants.

Wet weather helped human culture grow

Symbolic artefacts from around 75,000 years ago unearthed from Blombos Cave, South Africa

Some of the earliest signs of modern human culture found in South Africa are linked to periods where the climate changed rapidly to wetter conditions, scientists including those at the Natural History Museum report in Nature Communications today, May 2013.

Natural History Museum is Best of the Best

Museum's Dr Michael Dixon with comedienne and broadcaster Sue Perkins

The Natural History Museum won Best of the Best at the Museums and Heritage Awards last night, 16 May 2013.

Fatal fungus found in third major amphibian group, caecilians

This Cameroon caecilian species, Geotrypetes seraphini, tested positive for the chytrid fungus

Fatal chytrid amphibian fungus found in caecilians for the first time by scientists at the Natural History Museum, May 2013.

Spot pests and diseases with the OPAL tree health survey

Investigating a tree in Kew Gardens for the launch of the OPAL tree health survey.

Help scientists find out how badly affected the trees are in your area by taking part in the OPAL tree health survey, a partner of which is the Natural History Museum, launched today 9 May 2013.

Tinkerbella nana, a new species of fairyfly

New species of fairyfly, Tinkerbella nana, is 2.5 times the width of a human hair.

Tinkerbella nana, a new species of fairyfly, sounds like something from a fairytale, but it is a new species and genus of fairyfly, the group of tiny parasitic wasps, collected by Natural History Museum scientist John Noyes, Apr 2013.

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