Science news articles about 'natural history museum'

An insect, not seen in the UK before, has been discovered living in the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Garden in London. The tiny bug is baffling insect experts at the Museum who are still trying ...

The Natural History museum in London has a new building - an eight storey high 'cocoon' to house 20 million plant and insect specimens

From 14 November 2008 to 19 April 2009 the Natural History Museum in London is staging Darwin's Big Idea, an exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth

... Kenneth E. Stager, emeritus senior curator of ornithology and mammalogy at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, has died. He was 94.

... giant eight-storey cocoon today as the Natural History Museum's new £78m Darwin Centre opens ... William and Sir David Attenborough. "The Natural History Museum and the dedicated people who work here are ...

... paleoelevation implications") with paleontologists from the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

The experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to identify species from around the globe, from birds and mammals to insects and snakes. Yet they can't figure out a tiny ...

The Renzo Piano-designed facility will house an aquarium, planetarium, natural history museum and classrooms. San Francisco

Staff and science cut as museum's endowments crash.

... involve sophisticated learning. Think of the child who sees dinosaur skeletons for the first time on a family trip to a natural history museum, and then goes on to buy dinosaur models and ...

... after 150 years in the vast stores of the Natural History Museum in London.On 26 May 1859, six ... plucked up the courage to publish his theory of natural selection, the stone hand axe from the bottom of ...

... whodunit, who gets on the case? In capers where feathers or fur are the smoking guns, the role of CSI is often played by top natural history museums....

... evidence. Paleoanthropologist Peter Andrews, a past head of Human Origins at the London Natural History Museum and coauthor of The Complete World of Human Evolution (Thames & Hudson, 2005), said ...

Scientists have identified a new species of bat weighing just five grammes in the Comoros island archipelago off eastern Africa, the Natural History Museum in Geneva said on Wednesday.

DNA science has transformed the old-fashioned natural history museum into a rich trove for the study of genetics in the 21st century.