Travel through 4.6 billion years of our planet's history and help protect its future. Snap a selfie with a piece of Mars, touch a fragment of the Moon and lay your hands on a meteorite older than our ...

Coral reefs provide an important ecosystem for life underwater, protect coastal areas by reducing the power of waves hitting the coast, and provide a crucial source of income for millions of people.

Some dinosaurs could reach enormous sizes. In fact, the very biggest would tower over any land animal alive today! Get to know some of the largest dinosaurs to have ever walked the planet. Dinosaur ...

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against an irritant such as a parasite entering their shell or damage to their fragile body. The oyster or mussel slowly ...

Woolly mammoths roamed parts of Earth’s northern hemisphere for at least half a million years. They were still in their heyday 20,000 years ago but within 10,000 years they were reduced to isolated ...

In this activity, your class will examine why fossilization is a rare occurance. They will examine how leaves decay in different locations outside, and compare them to a leaf treated with silica gel.

In this activity, your class will examine the process of fossilisation. They will discuss how fossils are formed by mineralisation of the remains of living organisms. They will explore this effect by ...

Using cabbage water as an indicator, they will investigate how increasing levels of carbon dioxide can make water more acidic. They will then see how acidic water can effects calcium carbonate, and ...

Ladybirds with their distinctive look and vibrant colours are great for introducing classification in the classroom. They’re also common in many habitats, so they work well for classes looking to ...

These books make for great additions to a school or classroom library. They can be used to enrich learning about lifecycles and reproduction by giving students a gentle introduction to DNA and ...

Trilobites lived in all Earth’s oceans for hundreds of millions of years. They had tough exoskeletons, which made them more likely to fossilise. The detailed fossil record of trilobites shows how ...

Watch a Museum conservator reposition the delicate skeleton of Napoleon Bonaparte's horse, Marengo. This small stallion carries the weight of more than 200 years of history, having served in the ...