Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Remember, remember, watch wildlife in November,

During late August 2025, the Hunterian Museum of Zoology in Glasgow hosted Snake Summer, an event covering snakes in science, folklore and fantasy organised by Dr Will Tattersdill of the University of

The spot lamp sweeps across the track as the Land Rover trundles forward, kicking up the unmistakable scent of the African bush at night. That pool of light reveals fleeting flashes of mopane and acac

The need to know what they’re up to drew ecologist Jonathan Briggs deeper into birding…

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich