Big whale discovery

THE DEEP SEA IS BY FAR THE LARGEST habitat on Earth. It is, says Natalie Lawrence in her book Enchanted Creatures, “the last wilderness vast enough to hide monsters”. Unsurprisingly, many myths have a

COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent takes a closer look at the sturgeon, which has been highly prized by gastronomes since Roman times

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KILLER WHALES, OR ORCAS, have been filmed making and then using what is thought to be the cetacean equivalent of a pumice stone. It’s the first time that a marine mammal has been seen creating a groom

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