The wonderful world of slime

BEASTS WITH BOGIES

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

There’s a fairytale quality to Sophie Nichols’s work – a cast of tiny characters for whom a gentle push or the turn of a handle is the breath of life

With a season of winter storms approaching James Batty explains how to make the most of the great bass fishing that comes during or after a big blow

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock