Hammerhead bat

there’s something about seeing a bat that makes you shout “bat!” It’s the only way to greet one – on summer nights around the campfire, waiting for the first to start flitting around the treetops, or

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30-minute birder Amanda Tuke sees the benefits of being distracted by birds at home, and on the coast

I started talking to dragonflies in India at a place where my husband and I stayed several times in the foothills of the Himalayas. I noticed that dragonflies came and settled in the sunshine on the p

When European scientists first set eyes on the platypus, in the form of a pelt and a sketch shipped over from Australia in 1798, they couldn’t believe it. The specimen was so bizarre that English zool

DOM GARNETT – ONE MAN DETERMINED TO KEEP THE PLEASURE IN ANGLING