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The Wonder of Nature

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Step into a world filled with fantastic beasts

11 Incredible Creatures You Need To Know

Get to know the real-life weird and wonderful animals at the Natural History Museum

Take a Peek at the Exhibition

Walk around the Natural History Museum from home

Have a fantastic beasts game night

Get together with your friends and family to piece together weird and wonderful creatures

Connect with Friends to Create Some Creatures

See the images you just put together in full

The Natural History Museum

Make your own fantastic, real-life beasts

Create new creatures with unusual colour combinations

Colorful Creatures and Critters

Reimagine nature's wonders in your favorite colors

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Mythical creatures through history

Meet nature's merpeople and dinosaur-inspired dragons

Mythical creatures

Mermaids

A case of mistaken identity, sea cows and their pop culture relatives

Mythical creatures

Dragons

Could dinosaur bones have been the original inspiration for dragons?

Mythical creatures

Unicorns

Meet the natural world's fantastic horned beasts, who may have inspired tales of unicorns

Mythical creatures

Sea Serpents

From kraken to giant squid, discover what life lurks in the deep sea

Which animals used to be commonly mistaken for mermaids?

Manatee

Fantastic beasts and their real-life counterparts

From camoflaged creatures to collectors of all shapes and sizes

Mooncalves and Elusive Creatures

Get to know the creatures who like life in the shadows

Nifflers and Real-Life Collectors

Meet some of the natural world's hoarders

Occamies and Nature's Shape-shifters

Discover flying snakes and shrinking shrews

Demiguises to Wild Disguises

How creatures in the natural world use camouflage and invisibility

Who shares a skill?

Can you guess which natural-world animal shares traits with these fantastic beasts? Click to reveal the answer

Which animal is most similar to the Niffler?

Magpie

The incredible abilities in nature

Mating dances in the wild and clever plant properties

Wonders in nature

Bowtruckles and The Power of Sticking Together

Learn how co-operative, co-habiting plants and animals benefit from mutualism

Wonders in nature

Survival of the Fittest in the Ocean's Reefs

Uncover the survival strategies that keep reef animals safe from deadly predators

Wonders in nature

Erumpents and Mating Dances

Step inside the colourful world of animal courtship

Name that creature

Can you guess which animal is the owner of these special features? Click to reveal the answer

Nature at risk

Animals that need our help to survive

Protecting Beasts Under Threat

Learn about the real-life beasts that need our help

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Animals at Risk Because of Trade and Superstitions

Discover how trade and superstitions threaten the natural world

The Extinction of Steller's Sea Cow

Meet Steller's sea cow, a fantastic marine beast and the first sea mammal in modern times to be made extinct

Pangolins: One of the World's Most Trafficked Mammals

Discover the desperate story of these threatened creatures

What do pangolins eat?

Insects

How to be an explorer

Learn what it takes to be an explorer

Step inside the world of Magizoologist Newt Scamander, and learn what it takes to be a real-life explorer

Tools of the trade

What's in the toolkit used by Mazizoologists and scientists?

The most incredible creature of all

Explore a blue whale skeleton in AR and stand inside it in 3D

Invite Animals Into Your Living Room

Use augmented reality to bring the largest animal on earth inside

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Explore more magic

A History of Magic at the British Library

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