What is a cephalopod?

Of all the garden minibeasts, few are as misunderstood as this humble creature

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IN MARINE FISHKEEPING, fish are the undeniable show-stealers. When folks think “reef tank”, what comes to mind are graceful yellow tangs, wiggly ‘Nemos’, and psychedelic mandarins. Not a lot of people

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

For a quarter of a century, the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow has been leading the way in crustacean conservation. Oliver Berry heads west to observe its mission in close-up

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