The aardvark

Somewhere in the amazonian understorey, beneath a great forest canopy, a cricket leaps on to the stem of a shrub. It’s the last leap it will ever make. It never gets to flex its legs again. It’s stuck

Keepers at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia have noticed a fashion trend spreading among groups of chimpanzees living there – sticking strands of grass in their ears or rectums, and just le

Meet the prehistoric giants that roamed the Arctic Circle thousands of years ago

A Austin Ant In the late 1960s, Mini creator Sir Alec Issigonis turned to developing a small 4x4 that was intended for military use but which would also spawn a civilian version. Small, tough and desi

Deputies were called to an ice cream parlour in South Lake Tahoe, California, after the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received reports of an unusual disturbance on 17 August. Entering the shop, th

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo