W hen a peacock mantis shrimp strikes, it generates the heat of a star. The crustacean retracts a spring-loaded mouthpart known as a dactyl club and puts it on a latch, like a cowboy cocking the hamme

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Before winter is out, why not cast a line for Britain’s most iconic predatory species? It’s not as difficult as you might think, and Stu Lennox is here to guide you through the basics...

In this new series, I’ll explore just how clever plants are, the complex ways in which they respond to the environment around them, the adaptations they make and the survival strategies they employ. I

From 9,000m up, the view of a seemingly infinite stretch of boreal forest gave rise to the realisation that our brilliant idea, hatched over a pint in the Green Dragon in Bungay, might not be so brill