Natural History Museum

The father-and-son duo, the last generations of a long line of renowned glassworkers, crafted thousands of realistic models of plants and sea creatures.

Host vouchering, the practice of preserving species known to harbor infectious diseases, can be used to help determine a pathogen’s source, scientists say.

A photograph of microbes producing the antibiotic actinorhodin is one of many images on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History this winter.

Microscopic analysis of carnivorous dinosaur teeth reveals specialized serrated edges.

A collection of colorful drawings compiled by publisher Louis Renard sheds light on eighteenth-century science.

Some of the fantastical marine life depicted in a rare, 18th-century book

A 17th century Danish doctor arranges a museum of natural history oddities in his own home.

To save money, an Iowa university will shut down its natural history museum and K–12 teacher-training center.

As institutions around the world start celebrations of Darwin Day, New York reveals a digitized catalog of Darwin’s scientific manuscripts.

Critics are shaming the European Commission for directing research funds to a laboratory operating in the occupied West Bank.

Dead fish find new life in a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.