This website reproduces in electronic form the catalogue data on bird type specimens in the collections of the Natural History Museum, originally published in the two volumes listed below (both now ...

Our curator Miranda Lowe CBE explores the colonial history of the Natural History Museum and reveals some of the untold ... and landscapes helped these scientists to navigate and find specimens that ...

The Natural History Museum ... such space to open at the museum since 2016. It will feature pioneering research from the museum’s scientists and more than 250 specimens that tell the story ...

Aiding researchers across the globe, the National Museum of Natural History maintains and preserves the world’s most extensive collection of natural history specimens. Geologists and other scientists ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...