Poison dart frogs

Hop aboard as Daisy Dobrijevic sets sail to discover the world’s most unusual beasts.

Mimicry is where one species evolves to look like another. Animals evolve to mimic others in two main ways and they can be classed as either ‘honest’ or ‘dishonest’ mimics. In honest mimicry, two or m

IN A NEW BOOK, PSYCHOLOGIST Leanne ten Brinke REVEALS HOW TO RECOGNISE A SNAKE IN THE GRASS – AND WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET BITTEN

Dave Lewis recalls a trip to explore the National Museum of Wales’ collection of rare and unusual fish, and asks why these sorts of catches seem to be becoming more common

Nothing is quite so cheering after a long dull winter as the vivid floods of crocuses that wash over our parks and gardens in February and March. For David Carver, however, who has set up a small spec

WITHIN THE AQUARIUM hobby, all sorts of bottom-dwelling, cyprinid-adjacent fishes are referred to by the name 'loaches'. So, we have the hillstream loaches of the family Gastromyzontidae, of which the