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Plants and animals that have clung onto some of their ancestral anatomy
Dinosaurs were prehistoric egg-laying reptiles that went extinct millions of years ago, but their survivors still live among us
FOSSIL EVIDENCE TELLS US THAT insects have put wings to good use in their domination of the planet for the past 325 million years. However, some of these insects have given up their various motile fla
How far can you run? One kilometre? Five? 10 perhaps? Maybe you’re fit enough to run a half-marathon without too much fuss. Possibly even a full one. Whatever your record for distance might be, it’s n
THE BLACK-CAPPED chickadee is wonderfully onomatopoeic. When the diminutive songbird, which is Canada’s answer to the great tit, spots a great-horned owl perched in a tree, it broadcasts a shrill ‘chi
AUGUST has thrown up a number of stories ...
KILLER WHALES, OR ORCAS, have been filmed making and then using what is thought to be the cetacean equivalent of a pumice stone. It’s the first time that a marine mammal has been seen creating a groom
