Moon Bouncing Taken in 2008, this pair of telecommunications masts in downtown Atlanta, USA carry a mix of phone, TV...
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Seven-Spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) The seven-spot ladybird is one of Britain's most common beetles, easily recognisable by its distinctive markings....
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) This flower is native to Europe and North America. The origin of the word dandelion is a...
Fact of the day #1 Drinking absolutely pure water can kill you. All the water we normally drink - from...
James Pope This is odd behaviour for a southern tamandua anteater (tamandua tetradactyla). They're usually found in trees, not wandering...
James Pope Eight million cows roam Brazil’s Pantanal – the world’s largest wetland – and with all that beef chomping...
© Charles Harvey Seven-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) One of the most distinctive and, arguably, the most popular insects in the...
Andrew Purcell Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Frogs are amphibians, which means 'tail-less', from the Greek an-, meaning 'without' and oura, meaning 'tail'. Formerly,...
Andrew Purcell White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) You may be aware of species, such as kangaroos for instance, which use saliva...
Andrew Purcell The Insurance Hypothesis Farming monoculture, such as in this corn field, can lead to decreased net ecosystem CO2...
Andrew Purcell Increasing average global temperatures are allowing alien species from Mediterranean climates to invade into more northerly areas....
Andrew Purcell There can be few species on Earth about which more myths exist than piranhas. Piranhas have an...
Andrew Purcell Coral reefs around the world are rapidly being degraded by a number of human activities including...
James Pope If you own cows, don't feed them mouldy beet silage - it could be their last meal....
Andrew Purcell One of the IPCC’s key predictions for climate change in Europe is that we will experience, on average,...
Andrew Purcell Some shocking statistics about the world’s rivers: Every day, 2 million tons of human waste are disposed of...
Andrew Purcell Earlier this month, researchers from New Zealand announced that they had observed wasps lifting up ants and carrying...
Andrew Purcell Given that many Christians will be celebrating Easter this weekend, I thought it would be interesting to use...
Andrew Purcell Forget cat’s eyes on our roads, now it’s all about the otters. Last week, it was announced that...
Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) There is a paradox in nature conservation, that the efforts taken to protect a species from extinction,...
5. The ultrasound gun The sonic devastator Imagine the sound of fingernails scraping down a blackboard, then amplify it to...
Andrew Purcell Ever since French entomologists August Magnan and André Sainte-Lague famously declared that bee flight was aerodynamically impossible, a...
Amur (Siberian) Tiger Panthera tigris altaica (Photo by Andrew Purcell) The Chinese Year of the Tiger came to an end...
Andrew Purcell Painted Lady (Cynthia cardui) Almost a third of butterflies in Europe are in decline and one in ten...
