The wonderful world of slime

From strange lights in the sky to rocks that spontaneously glide across the ground, the mysteries scientists are trying to finally crack

Of all the garden minibeasts, few are as misunderstood as this humble creature

STANDING in the forest at 11 p.m. on a Scottish island, I feel like I’ve gone through the looking glass. The grass is purple, the trees look like they’re sheeted in aluminium, the leaves are red and t

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

Moles are strange. they have evolved to become so highly specialised and attuned to a particular way of life that they are, for the most part, out of sight. Underground, they live in a fossorial world