Feral cats: pests or wonders of evolution?

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Amazing answers to your curious questions

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

Can we really bring back long-extinct animals, or are scientists just making close copies?

Are you into ‘rewilding’? Can you define what that is? If you can’t, you’re not alone. The term has a variety of meanings, not all ecological. When rewilding was originally envisioned by a pioneering

Hannah Betts prefers parading pelts to donning dun uniforms