How the sea cucumber lost its armour
By Imran Rahman, Research Fellow You have probably heard of sea cucumbers. If you’re lucky, you might have seen one, if not in the wild, then perhaps in a nature […]
Category Archives: Earth Collections
Happy 250th William Smith
Today is the 250th birthday of the remarkable English geologist William Smith, creator of the first geological map of England and Wales – ‘the map that changed the world’. Here […]
Writing from experience
The Museum’s building and collections provide inspiration for scientists and artists alike, often acting as a springboard for the creation of new work. Following a year here as one of […]
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, […]
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 […]
