2018

They include new dinosaurs, an ancient wombat and a giant shark.

A campaign group have attracted national attention for their quest to get her permanently commemorated. 

Rats and pigeons are thriving, but unique species are disappearing.

It likely went extinct at around the same time as Neanderthals.

Half of the skull was lost for over a century. 

A sperm whale has washed up in Indonesia with nearly six kilogrammes of plastic in its digestive system.

These horned frogs are named for their pointy eyebrows.

Small primates were sailing the high seas long before humans existed.

Whales had more cortisol in their bodies while the global whaling industry was at its peak.

Hunting for meat is now a serious threat to the species' survival.

Scientists are still unsure where the species came from.

Humans are the driving force behind the mass decline of species. 

The project will help us understand how the natural world is changing.

It could help us to monitor mining impacts in the ocean.

A proposed plan to mechanically dredge kelp in Scotland would destroy a unique habitat.

The birds' nesting behaviour reflects the health of our oceans.

The probe will help reveal some of the secrets about Mercury.

The RSPB are planning a mouse eradication programme starting next year.

Microplastics are having an enormous impact.

A new study is helping to explain how evolution works.

Refuges in the Arctic may help save the species.

Experts think it is likely that the beluga came from the direction of Svalbard off Norway. 

The animal was spotted this afternoon near Coalhouse Fort in East Tilbury, Essex.

The rovers have captured the first ever images from the surface of an asteroid.

The discovery of cholesterol is consistent with Dickinsonia being an animal. 

Evidence suggests she may have given birth the year before she died. 

Scientists are trying to clean up the tens of thousands of pieces of junk in space.

The fish burrows underground and breaths through the lining of its mouth. 

The rodents are being reintroduced in the hope of starting a new colony.

The earliest human drawing, dating back to the Stone Age, has been found in a cave in South Africa. 

Is this enough to save the world's oceans?

Researchers have found evidence that suggests Mars once had an ancient ocean and a water cycle similar to Earth's. 

Dwarf emus were driven to extinction by humans. Now their remains are at risk too.

New rooms for Members and Patrons of the Museum have been named in celebration of palaeontologist Mary Anning.

Researchers are delving into the origin of the aubergine by sequencing its DNA.

The spacecraft will continue taking three pictures a week until it reaches the asteroid. 

It's been a long, hot summer and now that August is drawing to a close, wasps are out in full force.

Fragments of bone from a Siberian cave reveal ancient human species were mating.

The fossils will help us understand how these creatures evolved over the past 40 million years.

Meteorite impacts may have been key to life on Earth.

The Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft in history.

Discover the story behind the latest images to come from a Japanese sample return asteroid mission.

It has been a record year for cetacean sightings in the waters around Britain.

Three lambs have been born to the Museum's sheep, and you can name them.

Museum scientists are travelling the globe to understand how frogs see the world. 

The teeth are helping us to understand how ancient human populations interacted.

The discovery is expected to be followed up by more new species.

Scientists have concluded that there is not enough carbon dioxide on Mars for humans to live on the planet.

The presence of a subglacial lake could provide an environment for life

A lunar eclipse happens when the Moon's orbit takes it into the shadow of the Earth.

The discovery is changing how scientists think these dinosaurs evolved. 

Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid has been named after the Museum's Head of Collections.

All membership packs and magazines will now be mailed in 100% biodegradable or recyclable packaging. 

Researchers have discovered several new animal species living on the Pacific seafloor.

A new paper challenges the traditional idea that our species evolved from a single population in one region of Africa.

Scientists have been investigating the last meals of a seal in search of plastic.

There are about 90 million dogs living in North America, but where did they all come from?

Museum scientists have found a metal fragment embedded in the skull of a seal found on a UK beach.

New stars and planets are being born all the time, but it's not often that scientists get catch a glimpse of the process.

Remains of young people who were ritually sacrificed have been found from Bronze Age Mesopotamia.

Scientists are studying the way dragonflies fly in the hope of making small planes more stable and robust.

Scientists have developed new adhesives inspired by some very sticky slugs.

Some shearwaters in Australia appear to be better than others at avoiding feeding plastic to their chicks. 

At around 4.5 billion years old, the Mukundpura meteorite may hold key information about the early solar system.

Scientists have peered inside the tooth of the extinct reptile Eilenodon.

Thousands of ocean animal specimens have joined the Museum's collections, including a group of rare anglerfish.

For the first time, scientists have an image of what happens inside an ant's brain when it is infected with a parasitic worm.

Researchers uncovered how the genome of a dinosaur might have looked by studying turtles and birds.

A meteorite sample from the Museum collection is revealing more about how and when the crust of the Red Planet formed.

The DNA of thousands of animals, including endangered species, is being collected in a national network of freezers.

A Brazilian beetle in the genus Metallactus has been named after an ale.

A dolphin that washed up on a beach in Norfolk is one of the latest cetaceans to strand.

Hollywood star Andy Serkis worked with Museum experts to create an animated Neanderthal.

A deadly fungus has been devastating populations of amphibians all over the world - but no one knew where it began until now.

The Forestry Commission issues annual alerts about toxic oak processionary moth caterpillars in London.

The Museum's spectacled porpoise specimen went on a rather unusual trip, all in the name of science.

Seaweed experts visit the Falklands' remote coastlines to uncover new species.

Cleaning over 300 specimens takes time and a lot of dexterity.

The new centre will allow scientists to collaborate more closely and share pioneering research.

Museum palaeontologist Emanuela Di Martino has been studying ancient bryozoans to understand ocean diversity.

Scientists believe that the arrival of just one more ash dieback spore could kill off Europe's remaining ash trees.

This discovery will allow scientists to look at the effects of climate change on blue-green algae and their toxins in Antarctica. 

Studying an Indian Ocean paradise is helping to reveal which animals living on low-lying islands are at risk from rising temperatures.

The broadcaster visited Natural History Museum collections to create a documentary revealing the wonder of birds' eggs.

Scientists have formally given an ancient reptile a name, over 80 years since its fossils were found in Tanzania.

Researchers have been studying the magnetic fields of 4.6-billion-year-old meteorites. 

It's the most diverse part of the ocean, but plenty of people have never heard of it.

Canned water will be replacing single-use plastic bottles.

The arrival of a tiny moth in the Wildlife Garden sparked a scientific search of London.

There are just two northern white rhinos left, both females. It leaves the subspecies with little hope of escaping extinction.

Museum archaeologists have helped to uncover clues to the people who lived in North Africa 15,000 years ago. 

Sir David Attenborough has had a 60-year career in TV - but he's still interested in new ways of delivering nature to your door.

Thousands of sea creatures blanketed the beach in Kent in one of the biggest mass strandings on record in the UK.

Plants appeared on Earth 100 million years earlier than scientists previously thought.

Ancient DNA reveals that the British population was all but wiped out and replaced roughly 4,400 years ago.

A piece of Martian meteorite is being returned to the red planet by NASA.

Dippy the Diplodocus skeleton has been installed in Dorset, the first stop of a UK-wide tour.

The Museum has digitised its collection of more than 70,000 parasitic lice.

A fourth mandible variation has been identified in some species of Odontolabis stag beetles and it's been named 'Boltcutter'.

A newly-discovered fossil jawbone has revealed that Homo sapiens had already left Africa 180,000 years ago.

A Museum scientist will be one of the first to examine a newly exposed part of the Antarctic sea floor.

A massive survey of life in the freezing seas around Antarctica has shown that they harbour many more animals than previously thought.

This is what happens when a Jurassic dinosaur is introduced to twenty-first century technology.

A television documentary will follow Museum scientists as they help deduce the astonishing facial appearance of Britain's oldest complete skeleton, Cheddar Man.

A new British bee has turned out to be an overlooked, long-time resident.

This picture of the Earth and the Moon was captured by a NASA spacecraft on a mission to learn more about where life started.

From mammals to Moon rock, there will be plenty of natural history to explore at the Museum and beyond in 2018.