Daisy is a journalist and writer with 20 years of experience working on titles including the Telegraph, Time Out London, ...
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, spanning 9.2 million square kilometres (3.6 million square miles) – an ...
American bison, by contrast, have a long, shaggy coat covering their front quarters, front legs and heads, light or dark ...
Less like a Ferrari and more like a junkyard go-kart, the arrangements of organs within our vertebrate bodies are far from ...
I n the Indian Ocean there’s an old fisher’s trick. The wily hunter catches a remora. They tie a line to its tail and throw ...
One morning, I was leading a game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, when we came across a small herd of Thomson's gazelles grazing and nearby a troop of 50-60 olive baboons foraging, some on ...
Spiders don't talk to each other like we do – instead they communicate using sight, touch and smell, says Sara Goodacre. One of the common topics of spider 'conversation' is around the hunt for a mate ...
During spawning season, small packs of amorous male pike will pursue the much larger females (most individuals over about 5kg ...
It looks like a squat, cuddly little bear, chirps like a bird and has webbed feet for swimming – meet the very rare and bizarre wild dog that's like no other ...
He also works as a wildlife guide in the country, specialising in bird and hide photography. It started with birdwatching – ...
If Coco Chanel gave the common blackbird a makeover, the result would be the oropendola. With a minimalist colour palette and ...
Nevertheless he imagined gradation from simple-eyed animals with pigment-coated nerves to ones with eyes of a “high stage of perfection”, such as our own. 11 weirdest, bizarre ...