WALKING WITH DINOSAURS? IN THE ’70S IT WAS WISER TO RUN. DIRECTOR KEVIN CONNOR REMEMBERS THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT

As an American bioscience company makes headlines with its plans to ‘de-extinct’ the dodo, Emma Hughes tries to separate fact from fiction in the tale of history’s most mythologised bird

In a time when people are being asked to consider eating insects, we should, perhaps, learn a thing or two from the aardvark (Orycteropus afer), Africa’s ant-guzzling gourmand. On an average night, th

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If you took our Christmas Quiz in the last issue, it’s time to check your answers. Be honest…

It’s a cold, clear February evening on Brighton beach. The sun has not yet dipped below the horizon and the last of the light is that strange, luminescent blue that presages dusk. Hundreds of pairs of