In a lot of people’s brains, “mammoths” are stored in the same slot as “dinosaurs.” In reality, mammoths appeared on earth around 5 million years ago, a solid 60 million years after the last of the dinosaurs wheezed their final...
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Red kites were, not so long ago, a very rare site on our windy isle. But, recent breeding programs have enabled them to become one of Britain’s few natural success stories. Their huge wingspans...
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Of all the bird species, the feral pigeon must be the one that faces the most derision. I, for one, do not believe that this pigeon hatred is entirely fair; I feel a certain duty...
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“Nature abhors a vacuum,” so we’re told. Nature also abhors a mess; it likes order and patterns. It likes things to match, it likes things to be symmetrical, and it likes things to resemble trees....
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The dinosaurs reigned on earth for around 66 million years before being unceremoniously extinguished. To put that into perspective, humans have been hanging about for just 200,000 years. That means that dinosaurs were the Lords...
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Woodpecker vs. snake? Yup. It’s not a battle I expected to watch this morning, but that’s the internet for you; a surprise at every turn. I don’t know how the snake got the...
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The Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, near the borders of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, is a huge, empty place. In total, it covers 165,600 square kilometers — an area larger than England. The geography of the region varies between tundra,...
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Hail in England rarely causes any damage. Like the rest of our weather, its annoying, but not often fatal. In other parts of the world, hail can be significantly more sinister; smashing windows, denting cars,...
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We all know animals eat each other, heck, we eat other animals, it shouldn’t be a surprise. But sometimes, when you’re presented with nature in its most brutal form, it still has the...
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In the modern world, there can’t be many scientific theories that face as much public criticism as evolution. Despite strands of evidence from multiple disciplines coalescing to sing the same tune of monkey to man,...
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