This London Climate Action Week join us for a free evening of creativity and nature positivity. From battling urban heat to reducing waste, let’s talk about how cities such as London are tackling the ...

New research suggests that the seabirds washing up on Australian beaches in 2023/24 were only a tiny fraction of the overall number that died during a heatwave that engulfed the s ...

The 19-metre-long Nanaimoteuthis haggarti was a fearsome carnivore eating fish, crustaceans and many other sea creatures.

Their research suggests that the shearwaters washing up on the beaches were only a tiny fraction of the overall number that ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...

A new study suggests that for the last 74,000 years, malaria shaped where early humans could live in Africa—fragmenting populations and influencing patterns of exchange long before recorded history.

Compiled by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and published in Frontier Economics, it is thought that sequencing all species from ...

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

You have the power to make a real impact on the planet. Generation Hope is an annual programme led in collaboration with young climate and nature leaders from around the world. It’s all about ...

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*Please note some sections of this website are not updating accurately and so may be out of date. Apologies.* I’m a researcher in the field of ancient DNA (aDNA) and museum-based genomics, with a ...