THE TRUTH ABOUT: Natural history museum - The Untold Story

From hotel suites to virtual reality, museums turn to licensing deals as costs rise

Natural History Museum and British Museum among cultural institutions leveraging collections and exhibitions

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5

Rodent-borne disease that kills 5,000 every year could worsen. Here’s why

Lassa fever causes 5,000 deaths every year and it is particularly dangerous in pregnancy

The Independent UK · Sep 29

Russian Thistle Spread: weed invades 100 million acres; USDA tests blister mite control

Introduced to North America in the 1870s, Russian thistle rapidly colonized the western regions, thriving in arid and disturbed soils. Its spread was exacerbated by agricultural shipments, where seeds mixed in could disseminate widely through farms and railroads. Once dry, the weed rolls across the landscape and scatters its seeds,…

The Times of India · Sep 14

From an unlikely friendship to a leopard’s clumsy maneuver: the world’s leading wildlife photography competition reveals a sneak peek of this year's extraordinary images

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition shares insights in the 2026 edition that received record-breaking subissions from photographers around the world

Digital Camera World · Aug 25

Wildlife Photographer of Year contest reveals preview of winning shots

Images of oxpecker cleaning its bill against a rhino’s skin and an inquisitive polar bear staring into a seal’s breathing hole are among them.

Evening Standard · Aug 25

A peeping polar bear and bullfrog’s near miss: Wildlife Photographer of Year 2026 first look

Images of an African bullfrog lunging for a butterfly and an oxpecker cleaning its bill against a rhino’s skin are among the winning entries this year

The Independent UK · Aug 25

A museum rock was forgotten for 30 years in a drawer in Japan. Now, its hidden bones may uncover a new 66-million-year-old sea monster

Researchers in Japan have identified four previously overlooked mosasaur bones from rock samples collected in the early 1990s. One bone is the first confirmed mosasaur premaxilla found in Japan, while unusual features in another skull bone suggest the fossil may belong to a previously unknown species.

The Economic Times · Aug 24

The Guardian view on the export of fossils: they deserve national treasure status

Editorial: Scientific specimens are being sold to foreign museums or snapped up by the super-rich. They should have the same legal protections as works of art

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21

Britain's best Jurassic fossil collection was sold to Abu Dhabi after UK museums could not raise the money to buy it

For decades, Dorset-based fossil hunter Chris Moore combed the cliffs and beaches around Lyme Regis and Charmouth, part of England's UNESCO-listed Jurassic Coast, gradually assembling a collection of 318 specimens spanning ichthyosaurs, fish and crustaceans, including fossils that could potentially represent species new to science. Under the region's fossil collecting…

The Times of India · Aug 20

Natural History Museum to reopen ‘hidden’ gallery after more than 80 years

The space was originally closed in 1943 after the museum’s herbarium was damaged during the Second World War

Evening Standard · Aug 19