Increasing ocean temperatures can cause corals to expel the nutrient-providing algae that they have a symbiotic relationship with. This means coral lose their colour, in what is known as a bleaching ...

Researchers have revisited a remote site in the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test for deep-sea mining in the 1970s. They ...

A new study has revealed the long-term impacts and the first signs of biological recovery four decades after a test mining experiment that removed polymetallic nodules in the Pacific Ocean. The ...

Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

The damage caused by plastic pollution goes far beyond the digestive system. Beneath the skin of seemingly healthy seabirds, new research has revealed the widespread effect of plastics on crucial ...

· Opening Friday 16 May – book your tickets now! Aligned in their commitment to inspiring curious minds, the Natural History Museum, London have partnered with Jupiter, an asset manager championing ...

The early mammals living alongside the dinosaurs might have all had dark-coloured fur. Living a nocturnal lifestyle, the animals’ colours would have helped them blend into the night. Dark brown was in ...

Principle Curator in charge of Invertebrate and Plant Palaeobiology, Giles Miller shares his diary entries over the course of his week There’s always incredible variety in the work of a curator with ...