As part of its seventh carbon budget, which establishes emission targets for 2038-2042, the CCC predicts that electrifying ...

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The Natural History Museum’s highly anticipated touring theatre production, Dinosaurs Live!, opened at the weekend with its first performance at The Playhouse, Weston-super-Mare. Created in ...

Take a free guided tour of some of our most famous galleries, led by award-winning Learning Volunteers. From women in science to gender and sex in the natural world, discover how diverse the history ...

Explore impressive adaptations animals have evolved for coping with sub-zero temperatures. How do penguins stop their feet from freezing? Why do saiga antelopes have such a bulbous nose? How do wood ...

Ambergris is often described as one of the world’s strangest natural occurrences. It is produced by sperm whales and has been used for centuries, but for many years its origin remained a mystery.

Finding out exactly when feathers evolved, and which animals had them, could offer important new insights into the distant past.

“Birds-of-paradise are a charismatic group that has evolved numerous plumage traits that aid in signalling and reproduction,” ...

A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their characteristic features 149 million years ago.