Inside the cave

Imagine doing your entire food shop at a butcher’s. No vegetables, no bread, no fruit, no pasta, milk or biscuits – just a trolley full of meat, fish, eggs and lard. That’s the carnivore diet. Its gos

What the scientists are saying… The prince ...

ELLA AL-SHAMAHI on exploring the evolution of mankind

D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at

She was an anti-science Creationist but Ella Al-Shamahi now champions palaeoanthropology and is making some startling discoveries about our ancestors

Asian or yellow-legged hornets (Vespa velutina) can deliver a very painful sting widely described as being “jabbed with a red-hot needle”. However, as with our native European hornet (Vespa crabro), t