The Natural History Museum (NHM) today announces the appointment of Jessica Bradford as its first Director of Collections. She will be key in leading the Museum's collections and acquisitions strategy ...
Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...
Despite their name, glow-worms aren't worms at all: they're beetles. They use their bioluminescent bodies to communicate with other beetles, in an attempt to attract a mate. The ocean is well known ...
Explore our workshops for students or download and print activity sheets in advance of your visit. Our free workshops can accommodate up to 32 students at a time. School visits, activities and ...
Parasalenia gratiosa A. Agassiz, 1864, by original designation. Mortensen (1943) placed Parasalenia in its own monogeneric family, on account of it having rather unusual globiferous pedicellarial ...
A small number of species have modified their life cycle to omit the planktonic stage (inner cycle in diagram). These lecithotrophs produce a smaller number of much larger yolky eggs which are ...