Antipodes

Twenty minutes ago, while seated in front of my computer screen and reading the news of momentous events throughout the planet Earth and bey...

This morning, while accompanying Sophia up the hill for her matinal pee, I came upon this splendid empty chrysalis, which is so light that ...

Having got rid of that lousy pun in my title (a silly way of trying to attenuate my great distress), I hasten to point out that I've tru...

A delightful detail in this story is the hero's name, Freek Vonk , which sounds great in English. Besides, this is the first time in my ...

The taxon (biological category) of this recently-discovered dinosaur is Concavenator corcovatus , which means "the Cuenca predator with...

This amusing video shows Stephen Fry and the zoologist Mark Carwardine in an encounter with a fat flightless parrot called a kakapo , whic...