Nature’s weirdest creatures

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

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

IN MARINE FISHKEEPING, fish are the undeniable show-stealers. When folks think “reef tank”, what comes to mind are graceful yellow tangs, wiggly ‘Nemos’, and psychedelic mandarins. Not a lot of people

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

MOST FISH ARE carnivorous at some level, taking insects and other small prey items even if they otherwise graze on algae or plants. But those that feed primarily on other fish often have behaviours an