Eleven ways to help birds in towns and cities (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Many birds are struggling not only due to the spread of urban areas but because of how we now construct our buildings....
Organic compost and diverse gardens are best for the UK’s earthworms (www.nhm.ac.uk)
One of the largest investigations into UK earthworms has revealed how we can all support the vital work of these creatures....
Rewild the soil: The largest urban rewilding project is going underground (www.nhm.ac.uk)
The largest urban rewilding project in the UK is happening on an old golf course....
River restoration is encouraging Atlantic salmon to return to heart of UK (www.nhm.ac.uk)
The return of spawning salmon to the rivers of Derbyshire is a real conservation success story. After centuries of intensive river management by the county’s burgeoning factories, the fish were driven extinct in many of its waterways....
People's Choice Awards - Wildlife Photographer of the Year (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Serotine bats have sex unlike any other mammal (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Dragon Man: ancient skull from China could be new human species (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Natural History Museum of London (www.nhm.ac.uk)
This is by far the most user friendly map of a museum I have ever seen. Out of the big four I’m visiting soon, the V&A’s map is terrible, the Science Museum’s is more like an ad brochure, and the British Museum’s is okay....
There is an 'immortal jellyfish' called Turritopsis dohrnii. Instead of dying it shrinks, absorbs its tentacles, settles on the seafloor as a blob-like cyst, becomes a polyp (the jellyfish's previous life stage) and once mature, adult jellyfish bud off. (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: foxes in focus (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Images of exotic, elusive and endangered creatures are submitted to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition every year, but it’s the familiar red fox that is a firm favourite among entrants from around the world.