The mexican mole lizard

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

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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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

The most famous living immigrant to the United States, Melania Trump, née Melanija Knavs, was born in Novo Mesto in Slovenia in 1970. She spent her childhood in Sevnica where in 2020 the US concept ar

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