New ‘bone collector’ caterpillar wears the remains of its prey

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

During late August 2025, the Hunterian Museum of Zoology in Glasgow hosted Snake Summer, an event covering snakes in science, folklore and fantasy organised by Dr Will Tattersdill of the University of

It was soft, rubbery and lubricious, a humongous earthworm to the untrained eye. I was pretty happy with my find until the joy of the moment was momentarily ruined when the ‘worm’ turned. It opened it

Of the 60,000 or so species of named weevils on this planet, Trachelophorus giraffa stands out by, well, a neck’s length. It is one of the iconic and endemic ‘must-see’ species for those planning a vi

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