The giant phantom jellyfish

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

With its majestic proportions and astonishing turn of speed–it can swim faster than a battleship–the bluefin tuna is poetry in motion

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

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

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

This week’s dream: the dazzling coral gardens of ...