LONDON (REUTERS)- Campaigners have urged London’s Natural History Museum to halt a botanical research expedition to a remote area in Paraguay, warning it would be “like genocide” for isolated indigenous groups in the region. Museum staff and scientists…
London’s Natural History Museum Urged to Stay Out of Isolated Latam Area
LONDON (REUTERS)- Campaigners have urged London’s Natural History Museum to halt a botanical research expedition to a remote area in Paraguay, warning it would be “like genocide” for isolated indigenous groups in the region. Museum staff and scientists…
Record Number of Visitors this Summer for the United Kingdom’s National Museums
LONDON.- This summer saw a record number of visitors to the UK’s national museums. Over 5.7 million people visited UK national museums in August 2010. This represents an increase of 11% from August 2009. Highlights include: • A total of 809,…
Record Number of Visitors this Summer for the United Kingdom’s National Museums
LONDON.- This summer saw a record number of visitors to the UK’s national museums. Over 5.7 million people visited UK national museums in August 2010. This represents an increase of 11% from August 2009. Highlights include: • A total of 809,…
Natural History Museum Invites to ID Your Trees in the Urban Tree Survey
LONDON.- You walk by them everyday, but do you know their names? Trees may be a familiar part of your environment, but do you really know a chestnut from a fir or an ash from an elder? Well here is your chance to find out and help scientists at the Nat…
New Permanent Exhibition Brings Climate Change & Evolution Dramatically to Life
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A museum experience 65-million years in the making, the spectacular new Age of Mammals exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park opened on Sunday, July 11, 2010 inside the Museum’s newly re…
Fossil of Mega-Toothed Killer "Leviathan" Whale Found in Peru
LIMA (REUTERS).- The fossil of a giant whale called Leviathan for having teeth bigger than a grown man’s forearms has been found in Peru by paleontologists who on Thursday said it may have been the largest predator to ever roam the seas. Leviathan Melv…