Natural History Museum: World of Wonder

The Urban Nature Project team start the ambitious transformation of the Natural History Museum garden, and Kieran delicately repairs a 67-million-year-old triceratops fossil. Elsewhere, preparations are underway as finalists from a wildlife photography competition are invited to a glittering awards ceremony. Cameras follow one of the photographers, Richie Richardson, who has been photographing the Souther White Whale, as he joins whale expert Richard Sabin for a visit to the great storage vaults.

Tori the ancient mammal expert meets artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg who brings different depictions of endangered rhinos for the Museum's latest exhibition, The Lost Rhino. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Patrick Vallance pays a visit to the museum's 40,000 bat specimens and discovers how a strain of Coronavirus has been detected in some bat specimens which are hundreds of years old. Andrea, curator of a new Challenger exhibition, prepares some of the records and photographs taken over 150 years ago on the sea expedition. Meteorite expert Natasha presents the museum's micrometeorites.

Cameras follow dinosaur expert Susie on a dig in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco in search of new dinosaur fossils. Back in London, researcher Lauren and her colleague Paul are on a mission to track down invasive species which are bad news for British wildlife, and Theo, one of the Urban Project youth leaders, explores the Museum's own wildlife in its garden.