The platypus

I HAVE written numerous pieces about mallard – this our most ubiquitous duck is a survivor. Mallard can be found almost everywhere, and I love them and never tire of watching them. They are underrated

THESE TALES OF FUR AND FEATHER TAKE US INTO THE HABITATS OF BOTH OUR PLANET’S BEST-LOVED AND MOST-MALIGNED SPECIES

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

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

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

It might not look promising, but the bush has some incredible birds, writes Vanessa Wright