How living things launch projectiles

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

Aside from lava, a volcano’s explosive power can release a devastating avalanche of searing ash

From mouth to manure, the journeys animals’ meals go on can be very different to human digestion

From Shakespeare to treasured stalking trophies and scientific study, antlers in all their aspects never fail to impress and inspire, says Charles Harris

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