Darwin’s strangest idea

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

The last word

We think of evolution as a slow, gradual process, but that’s not always the case. Some species undergo a rapid transformation

Spring is the time to see the muscular and noble goshawk, usually as elusive as a ghost circling and swooping through the sky

Long believed to be a symbol of good fortune, the albatross has its own annual world awareness day on 19th June. As legend would have it, the bird embodies the souls of sailors lost at sea, and to har

Our view of them may be clouded by controversy, but the sight of a silver-grey hen harrier scaling the heavens is pure theatre