The Museum’s collection of fossil and recent (living) ostracods includes 20,000 single specimen mounts and many faunal slides. Over half of the collection is from the UK, but it also includes material ...

Planktonic ostracods are a neglected component of mesoplanktonic communities, despite being almost ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans. Currently 209 species of halocyprid and 8 myodocopid ...

The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 ...

It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods.

Newly-released photographs revealed giant tubeworms, snails and mussels lurking below steamy underwater hot springs. The research sheds new light on the complex habitats that are found in the deep ...