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 ...

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 ...

The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest freshwater fish. It’s also cloaked in mystery. No one is sure how many giant stingrays are left, which habitats they prefer ...

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.