Inside the project to scan thousands of rare specimens

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Young People’s Book Prize The annual Young People’s ...

In a time when people are being asked to consider eating insects, we should, perhaps, learn a thing or two from the aardvark (Orycteropus afer), Africa’s ant-guzzling gourmand. On an average night, th

Safely stored in a dark vault in London, the dried specimens of Carl Linnaeus’s 18th-century herbarium–the basis for the worldwide system of plant naming still in use today–have been revealed in their true colours. Christopher Stocks reports

Our showcase of category winners from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards 2025

Keith looks back to when the search was on for a species now considered to be extinct