Monsters of the deep

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

Amazing answers to your curious questions

From strange lights in the sky to rocks that spontaneously glide across the ground, the mysteries scientists are trying to finally crack

When we think of the U-boat campaign during the Second World War, images often arise of silent predators gliding beneath the waves, steely and lethal, striking fear into Allied convoys. The myth of th

STANDING in the forest at 11 p.m. on a Scottish island, I feel like I’ve gone through the looking glass. The grass is purple, the trees look like they’re sheeted in aluminium, the leaves are red and t

Roger Morgan-Grenville celebrates the shapeshifting glories of Britain’s sea paths, evanescent byways revealed by the tides