Pictures of specimens can help scientists better identify ... Figures 3 & 4: A close-up of a butterfly and a metallic beetle, both from the Entomology teaching collection. Photo credits: Garret Jolma.

Upstairs on the third level, movers have also finished rehousing the 12 million insect specimens belonging to the Australian National Insect Collection. It includes thousands of butterflies, beetles, ...

The dearly deceased moths, beetles, butterflies and ... Like other exhibits at the museum, their collection of fossil ...

Our bird collections span the entire history of the Natural History Museum, from rare survivors of Hans Sloane’s collections that formed the foundation of the British Museum in 1753, to specimens ...

In the video above, Max Barclay, Senior Curator in Charge of the Museum's beetle collection, explains the science behind a bombardier beetle's detonations. There are hundreds of species of bombardier ...