Nature’s weirdest creatures the streaked tenrec

The best of the season to inspire and admire

A sturdy bonsai freshwater swashbuckler, the spiny stickleback is often the first fish we catch as children

Just like a bee sting, apparently; hardly anything to worry about. Just painful enough to make you swear under your breath, and you might get a bit of a swollen finger. Sounds fine, but I’m still not

D aylight, soft and grey, spreads into the ...

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

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