Today the RSB announces the launch of its new five-year strategy, from 2025-2030, and the unveiling of our new brand.

'Like everyone who comes to Edward Lear's natural history paintings after his nonsense poems, I was completely bowled over," says Jenny Uglow, whose new biography, Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense, ...

Maggots have a bad reputation. Wriggling, amorphous things, they are generally seen as synonymous with decay. However, behind the horror-film images there lurks a biological marvel that has intrigued ...

Erica McAlister is senior curator of Diptera at the Natural History Museum (NHM) and published her first book, The Secret Life of Flies, in 2017. Within a few minutes of meeting her it’s clear that I ...

Members are encouraged to confidentially nominate any candidate that they feel meets the above criteria, and will be able and willing to meet the listed expectations. Nominators should provide a ...

In our very first episode of the Biosphere Podcast, we dive into the world of animal behaviour and talk to Professor Sir Ian Boyd, RSB's President about his research and his science policy experience ...

This is a beautifully presented and illustrated book, of about A5 size, written by the former editor of Kew magazine. Joseph Banks was, and still is, a figure of global significance. Much has been ...

The Russian nobleman-turned-anarchist was also a biologist whose research in Siberia laid the groundwork for modern biological studies of co-operation and altruism, writes Tom Ireland Peter ...

The last native wolf in Yellowstone National Park was shot in 1926. This anthropogenic intrusion on a major wildlife habitat in North America generated controversy over the US Government’s policy of ...

Ask someone at random what a wasp is, and they will almost certainly say that they are small black and yellow insects, and that they sting with little provocation if they visit a late summer picnic.

For Biology Week 2017, we invited the public to vote for their favourite UK tree species. We want to highlight the importance of trees in the UK and raise awareness of their conservation needs. Trees ...