Electroreception: a shocking sense

Dr Roger Munro reveals the science and secrets to successful surf fishing and shares his top 10 tips to help you catch more

With a season of winter storms approaching James Batty explains how to make the most of the great bass fishing that comes during or after a big blow

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

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Amazing answers to your curious questions

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