The blue dragon

A team of scientists from the University of Portsmouth and London’s Natural History Museum has identified a new species of dinosaur after re-examining 125-million-year-old fossils found on the Isle of

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Conjure in your mind a giant, deep-sea predator, and I bet there’s a colossal squid lurking in there, perhaps with an even bigger sperm whale chasing after it. But there are plenty of other enormous h

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

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

Ghostly white forms drifted like white handkerchiefs on the brisk night breeze, dipping, rising, flapping, turning and tumbling over an inky black ocean. My small sailing boat rocked gently on the wav