As the worm turns

In 1977, the year the movie Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope was released, marine geologists laid eyes on a deep-sea hydrothermal vent for the first time. They were diving inside the submersible, kn

An ecosystem evolves across thousands of years, a biological interaction that is both intricate and fragile. The arrival of a new species can disrupt the balance, as we have seen in Britain with grey

THINK OF SOUTH American fishes and we mostly think of species from the Amazon basin. Like all river basins, the Amazon has an edge, in this case, one of those edges is the Guiana Shield, a region rich

IN THE AUGUST ‘25 edition of PFK, I discussed at length one of my favourite oddball fish: the urchin clingfish, scientifically known as Diademichthys lineatus. In said article, I mentioned that althou

DICK DURHAM

Echidnas are spiky and slow-moving mammals that have long or short snouts known as beaks. They’re also called spiny anteaters because they lack teeth and rely on their long, sticky tongues to catch in