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Jean Auel, author of The Earth's Children series, talks to Chris Stringer | Natural History Museum
At the Natural History Museum, bestselling novelist Jean M Auel talks to Chris Stringer, an expert in human orgiins at the Natural History Museum, about the author's popular Earth's Children books, and the latest research into...
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Entomologist Chris Lyal talks about Weevil art | Natural History Museum
Museum entomologist Chris Lyal introduces us to the work of artist Mark Ines Russell. Mark uses microscopes to examine the tiny weevils that he studies and paints. His images capture both the essential nature of the whole insect as well...
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Age of the Dinosaur | Natural History Museum
See what the kids who attended the preview had to say about the Age of the Dinosaur exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, which opened at the Museum on 21 April 2011.
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Nature in demand | Natural History Museum
Museum botanist Sandy Knapp discusses the role the John Reeves collection played in documenting the natural world in the 1800s. It was as important to the study of natural history as modern data collecting and imaging techniques are...
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Scott's Glossopteris specimen | Natural History Museum
Dr Paul Kenrick, a palaeontologist at the Museum, reveals a plant fossil that is very important to science. It was collected in 1912 by Captain Scott's Polar Party on their final expedition to Antarctica. The Glossopteris indica...
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Scott's Legacy | Natural History Museum
Max Jones, Beau Riffenburgh, Nerillie Abram, Jon Shanklin, Anne Jungblut and Paul Kenrick discuss the achievements of the Terra Nova expedition and how it continues today. More information @...
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Ecosystem economics - can we put a price on nature?
Watch the video of the first Earth Debate that took place on 25 January 2012. The wide-ranging debate highlighted how important it is to really understand the value of nature, and to put this into a language that decision makers...
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Green cities in a green economy | Natural History Museum
Watch the video of the 3rd Earth Debate, hosted by the Museum on 14 March 2012. The debate focused on how cities will play an increasing role in the welfare of both people and the environment in the future and what is needed to make them...
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Helping the orang-utan | Natural History Museum
Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii, are critically endangered. Fewer than 7,000 are left in the wild, and they are threatened by the destruction of their forest habitat. Panut Hadisiswoyo, Director of the Orangutan Information Centre in...
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Neanderthals and us | Natural History Museum
What is the relationship between the Neanderthals and us? Neanderthals were very widespread in Europe until about 60,000 years ago and this is the time when modern humans, Homo sapiens, are thought to have started migrating out of...
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Neanderthal hunters and the mammoths of La Cotte de St Brelade | Natural History Museum
Nestled inside a rift in Jersey's sea cliffs, La Cotte de St Brelade is a special site. Neanderthals sheltered here intermittently from about 240,000 to perhaps as recently as 45,000 years ago and left behind thousands of bones and...
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The last of the mammoths | Natural History Museum
Why did the woolly mammoth go extinct? Museum mammoths expert Prof Adrian Lister discusses what his research reveals about the cause. Find out more about Museum research into the last major extinction of large mammals:...
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Meet the first Britons | Natural History Museum
Watch the Museum's human origins expert, Chris Stringer, introduce the Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story exhibition and the people who have called this land their home. The dramatic story of ancient Britain, its changing...
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Digitising the collections | Natural History Museum
We are embarking on an epic journey to digitise 80 million specimens from one of the world’s most important natural history collections. Digitising the Museum’s collection will give the global scientific community access to unrivalled...
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The Microverse in the lab | Natural History Museum
To help us with our research into the biodiversity of microorganisms, schools and community groups are collecting samples from a little studied extreme environment - the exteriors of buildings across the UK. But what happens next? Watch...
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Paradise in peril | Natural History Museum
Coral reefs teem with life, colour and beauty. Experts involved in coral reef research, monitoring and conservation share their passion for this underwater paradise and reflect on their hopes and fears for its future. Learn about a...
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The Swindon stegosaur | Natural History Museum
Palaeontologist Prof Paul Barrett shows science communicator Dr Nick Crumpton the Museum’s Dacentrurus specimen, the first stegosaur specimen to be described. Find out how this unassuming fossil can help modern day palaeontologists make...
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Naming nature, putting life in order | Natural History Museum
How do you name and categorise 80 million specimens, let alone all known life on Earth? Curator Jon Ablett introduces taxonomy - the science of naming, describing and classifying the natural world - and its many applications. Discover...
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The Mystery of the Barwell meteorite | Natural History Museum
On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a Christmas turkey broke up over the Leicestershire village of Barwell. Natasha Almeida, Assistant Meteorite Curator at the Museum, joins science communicator Camilla Tham to explain how one...
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Discovering Earth: science meets art | Natural History Museum
Join planetary geologist Joe Michalski and #Otherworlds artist Michael Benson as they explain how space exploration sheds light on the delicate beauty of life on Earth. See more of Michael Benson's in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar...
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Parasites in motion: Schistosomiasis | Natural History Museum
Our stop-motion video follows the life cycle of Schistosoma, a life-threatening parasite that can live in water, snails and even people. Learn more about how Museum scientists and collections are helping to battle neglected tropical...
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Crime Scene Live | Natural History Museum
Do you have what it takes to catch a killer? Combining real science and crime fiction, suit up and join Museum forensic scientists to solve a murder mystery at our evening event just for adults. Crime Scene Live runs throughout the year....
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How the moon got its spots | Natural History Museum
The surface of the moon is covered in huge dark spots, visible from Earth even with the naked eye. Join Prof Sara Russell as she tells science communicator Camilla Tham how the patches were formed....
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Inspirational teachers | Natural History Museum
Three Museum scientists share memories of very important people in their lives - the teachers who first sparked their passion for science. Our learning team can help you do the same for your students. Visit http://bit.ly/NHM-YT-Schools...