Love hurts

The need to know what they’re up to drew ecologist Jonathan Briggs deeper into birding…

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS – HAVE YOUR SAY

During late August 2025, the Hunterian Museum of Zoology in Glasgow hosted Snake Summer, an event covering snakes in science, folklore and fantasy organised by Dr Will Tattersdill of the University of

Of the 60,000 or so species of named weevils on this planet, Trachelophorus giraffa stands out by, well, a neck’s length. It is one of the iconic and endemic ‘must-see’ species for those planning a vi