Mammoth tusks and cocktail sticks
By Pete Brown, Move Project Assistant As part of the Museum of Natural History Move Project Team I have helped move and repackage tens of thousands of specimens since 2017, […]
Category Archives: Earth Collections
Bursting into life
By Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, Museum Research Fellow One of the earliest and toughest trials that all organisms face is birth. In egg-laying animals, the egg shell that has protected […]
Imagining lost worlds
Earlier this year University of Plymouth illustration student Rachel Simpson teamed up with our research fellow Jack Matthews to ‘bring the oldest multi-cellular organisms back to life’. Rachel tells us […]
Crafty camouflage
Last week we brought you snails that attach all manner of pebbles, fossils, corals and shark teeth to their shells. Today we give you a newly-discovered fossil green lacewing larva […]
Restoring the Great Lizard of Stonesfield
by Paul Smith, Museum director One of the unusual things about the collections in the Museum is that some of the specimens date back hundreds of years, and so have […]
Animating the extinct
This sumptuous video features on our brand new Out of the Deep display and brings to life the two large marine reptile skeletons seen in the cases. The Museum exhibition […]
Pieces of a plesiosaur
We’ve just opened a brand new, permanent display called Out of the Deep, featuring two beautifully preserved plesiosaur skeletons. Remarkably, both of these marine reptile fossils have skulls, which is more […]
