The strange life of a seahorse

COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent takes a closer look at the sturgeon, which has been highly prized by gastronomes since Roman times

THE DEEP SEA IS BY FAR THE LARGEST habitat on Earth. It is, says Natalie Lawrence in her book Enchanted Creatures, “the last wilderness vast enough to hide monsters”. Unsurprisingly, many myths have a

AUGUST has thrown up a number of stories ...

THE BEAUTY WITH snorkelling or diving is that it transports you away from the rat race of modern life into an alien world, far detached from our own. With that first dip beneath the surface, the stres

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

OF THE MANY pressing ecological issues facing the world today, invasive species come in near the top of the list. The aquarium trade is not blameless in its role of introducing unwanted species well o