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Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

When the temperature drops, how do Britain’s birds, beasts and plants keep the chill at bay? John Lewis-Stempel reveals Nature’s own thermals

With a range spanning from Canada’s boreal forests and Arctic tundra all the way to the steppes of southern Chile, the puma – also known as the cougar and mountain lion – has the widest distribution o

Colossal has a shopping list of species its wants to de-extinct

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c