Travel through 4.6 billion years of our planet's history and help protect its future. Snap a selfie with a piece of Mars, touch a fragment of the Moon and lay your hands on a meteorite older than our ...

Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful. More importantly, some have colourful and elaborate patterns that serve as a defence against hungry predators. There are many butterfly and moth ...

Go behind the scenes with our knowledgeable science educators for a look at the fascinating zoology collection preserved in spirit. As we explore some of the Darwin Centre’s 27 kilometres of shelves, ...

Discover some of the fascinating fossils you can find around Britain, what they look like and where to look for them. Take a look at these different kinds of fossils. What do they tell you about how ...

Coral reefs provide an important ecosystem for life underwater, protect coastal areas by reducing the power of waves hitting the coast, and provide a crucial source of income for millions of people.

‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our planet, from climate and evolution to diets and diseases. There may be more to these prehistoric ...

Ocean acidification is mainly caused by carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean. This leads to a lowering of the water's pH, making the ocean more acidic. Carbon dioxide is ...

When a full Moon occurs at the closest point to Earth during its orbit, it appears larger and brighter, becoming what is commonly known as a ‘supermoon’. A supermoon is widely recorded as being much ...

What most of us would recognise as a jellyfish - the otherworldly, gelatinous aquatic animals renowned for their sting-filled tentacles - is actually just the final stage of these animals' life cycle.

Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them more ancient than the dinosaurs. Today these otherworldly creatures can be found around the world, from coastal shallows to the ocean ...

Many species of frog are known to be poisonous, such as the often colourful poison dart frogs. But although incredibly rare, there are species that are venomous too. There are currently only two ...