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#NHM_Live: a Natural History Museum podcast

A weekly Science, Medicine and Natural Sciences podcast
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#NHM_Live: a Natural History Museum podcast

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#NHM_Live: a Natural History Museum podcast

#NHM_Live: a Natural History Museum podcast

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Come down to the depths of the Museum basement with us this month for an exclusive peek at the Tank Room and meet some of the 22 million specimens stored in alcohol, including a Greenland shark and Stanley the Sturgeon.Join Museum curators Ol
Join four Museum dinosaur experts as they each try to convince you that their favourite dinosaur is the best there ever was. It's the ultimate dino face-off! What's your pick for coolest dinosaur: the biggest, the quickest, the smartest, the fi
#NHM_Live returned for a brand-new series on 18 April. Watch the recording of the live show here.Meet Museum scientists who studied Cheddar Man and who use DNA to learn about our ancient relatives. Prof Chris Stringer and Dr Selina Brace were
This week's #NHM_Live featured the snakes of our collections in South Kensington, SW7. Joining host Alison Shean was Jeff Streicher, Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, who showed off some of the serpent specimens and shared with us fascinating
Joining host Alastair Hendry for the latest episode of #NHM_Live was Pip Brewer, Curator of Fossil Mammals, who showed off some of the fossil mammal specimens in the Museum’s collections and answered as many questions as she could about the lar
Sharks first evolved almost 200 million years before the dinosaurs and we're still learning more about species past and present. Emma Bernard, Curator of Fossil Fish, joined Alistair Hendry to show off some of the Museum's shark specimens, and
Jan Beccaloni, Curator of Arachnida was with host David Urry to show you some spidery specimens. From the impacts of climate change on the species being found in Britain through to the dancing of the peacock spiders, Jan was on hand to answer q
#NHM_Live is on a short break but we will return in August for more stories about the natural world from our curators and researchers here at the Museum.Join us live at 12.30 BST on 3 Aug to ask your own questions of our spider specialist Jan
On 13 July 2017 the Museum unveiled Hope the blue whale, a spectacular 25-metre-long specimen suspended from the ceiling of the Museum's central space, Hintze Hall.Just after the BBC broadcast their Horizon documentary about the new installat
Fly expert Duncan Sivell and forensic entomologist Martin Hall were with host Camilla Tham discussing the many ways in which flies (and their maggots!) are important. From helping the police to identify time of death at a crime scene to pollina
This week we were out in our leafy grounds with Steph West of the Museum's Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity. She talked to host David Urry about the wildlife in your gardens, from millipedes to stag beetles, and pond life to log life.
Is it really an insult to be called a Neanderthal? Our human origins expert, Chris Stringer, talked to Alison Shean about Homo neanderthalensis and their relationship with Homo sapiens while answering questions from the live audience throughout
We’re back with the first episode of series 2, featuring Paul Barrett discussing Dinosaur discoveries from around the world. Most species people are aware of are ones found in North America but dinosaurs have been found on every continent on Ea
There’s no episode this week but next week we’ll be bringing you the first episode of series 2.Better still you can join us at 18.30 BST on Thursday 15 June to watch the show live and ask your own questions directly of our scientist. Follow
In our final look back at series 1 of #NHM_Live, David Urry speaks to Natasha Almeida about the multitude of meteorites we have in our collections here at the Museum.
In this episode of #NHM_Live, Gavin Broad, Curator of Hymenoptera, talks to Alison Shean about the huge variety of wasps in nature and why they are so undeserving of their bad reputation. Learn about wasps that build nests, make honey and even
The Museum's conservators were the stars of our second broadcast in the first #NHM_Live series, where we took a look at how they repair and maintain the millions of specimens in the collections.
Our first ever series of #NHM_Live was broadcast earlier in the year on our Facebook page. We'll be starting our second series of broadcasts in June so, before we get going, here's a look back at the 4 episodes of series 1.During the first br
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