The Latest Breaking News from the Natural History Museum

The breaking of the Ramadan fast, the iftar meal, has become more than just an accepted part of our country’s calendar, it is celebrated as part of our British identity. But for many Muslims organising these events, they are starting to question how their positive actions of bringing communities together…

Living in the twilight zone, cockeye squid float between two worlds and have adapted to keep an eye on both

Plus! AI helps ID British therizinosaur by dental records, Tech & Science Daily speak to the Natural History Museum’s Simon Wills

‘Two large bags of dry paint’ seized from campaigners, who jumped over barrier around famous dinosaur cast

Paleontologists have confirmed that a rock enclosing a perfectly round agate crystal is actually a titanosaur egg, which was probably smothered by lava after a volcanic eruption 67 million years ago.

Other lives: Head of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum and authority on fossil brachiopods

It had been thought 15-ton Dippy was the world’s largest prehistoric beast, but at 57 tons, ­Patagotitan mayorum is much heavier and measures 121ft from head to tail, longer than 85ft Dippy

How big? Awe is the aim of this exhibition’s game, and it delivers

The ‘Nature Overheard’ project is set to investigate the link between noise pollution and insect populations

Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum roamed east Asia more than 160 million years ago and had a 15 metre long neck

With a neck that is 15 metres long, Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum might be a record-holder, researchers said.