So far this year two more departments of the Natural History Museum  have gone live with EMu: in January the Entomology department with its collection of 28 million specimens of insects and other terrestrial arthropods, and in February the Palaeontology department.

The Entomology department required the implementation of a different way of cataloguing data, the result of which is a new module that enables the department to group individual specimens with a common taxonomic classification. Although the migration of data was complex, the end result is a more manageable 1.1 million catalogued specimens and over a million different taxonomic names.

By 2009 the department's collection will be housed in the Darwin Centre Two, a £70 million building currently under construction. With its state of the art labs, visitors will be able to look behind the scenes and explore the ever evolving natural world.

Getting the Palaeontology department live with EMu involved considerable enhancement of the EMu client, including development of the Stratigraphy module. This will be used to hold information relating to Biostratigraphy, Chronostratigraphy and Lithostratigraphy.

The Palaeontology department's legacy data was heavily dependent on Unicode characters. Although EMu's support for Unicode is not yet an officially released feature, it was necessary to move ahead with its implementation in order to migrate the department's data, making the NHM's Palaeontology department the first to run EMu with Unicode.