Which would win in a race, a centipede or a millipede?

Somewhere in the amazonian understorey, beneath a great forest canopy, a cricket leaps on to the stem of a shrub. It’s the last leap it will ever make. It never gets to flex its legs again. It’s stuck

Dr Daniel Allen puts the spotlight on Britain’s only native crayfish

Jenny Sheldon from The Wildlife Trusts encourages us to make the most of the season’s nature

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Plundering a local byway for a spot of festive foraging, John Lewis-Stempel finds all life proliferating in the multitudinous micro-habitat of the winter hedgerow

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel