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i had come to big bend National Park, Texas, for the solitude, the sweeping desert views and the hope of spotting a black bear. It was a six-hour drive from El Paso airport, a journey through vast swa

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

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

I t’s 2am and Grandpa Boofhead is feeling frisky, his bellows echoing through the moonlit eucalyptus trees around my house in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. It’s early spring, the breeding seaso

By january mountain hares have turned almost fully white, apart from their contrasting ear tips, which seem to have been dipped in black paint. Seeing these charismatic cold-adapted mammals is a highl

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK/MICHAEL CONRAD 1 England’s biggest plot of ...