Blogs about Natural world

8-17 March 2024 is British Science Week APHA Weybridge are running some open days for science students from local colleges during British Science Week and will be engaging in more STEM events and careers fairs …

This is an exciting time in the beekeeping season. So much potential ... no dispiriting setbacks yet, no failed lime harvest or laying workers.Everything to play for 😀.The long winter wait is - or will …

Really proud to announce a new book from Workman Publishing called Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works. This is a book I would have loved to have read as a kid. How did modern species …

Léelo en español Years ago, I grew Stylidium debile in California. After a long period of not growing any carnivorous plants, a friend gave me this division, which just began to flower. Yes, yes, this …

If you have even a passing interest in the natural world, you will have most likely heard the phrase “invasive species”. By definition, a deliberate or accidental release of a species to an area beyond …

Turtle shells are different from the body armour or armoured shells we see adorning dinosaurs like the ankylosaurs. Ankylosaurs were blessed with huge plates of bone embedded into their skin that acted as a natural …

Introducing 'The All-seeing Golden Lion of Dalriada'

“For more than two decades now I’ve lived alongside the pelicans of the Prespa lakes in northern Greece. These birds are—for so many, residents and visitors alike—simply an astonishing and seamless part of being here. …

Nature is all about life - and death.As lovers of the natural world, we delight in the abundant, thriving, humming life all around us, which is at no time of the year more apparent than …

Toxicodendron sp., judging by a range map here, probably T. rydbergii – poison ivy. As I was taking the picture, someone came by and announced, "Berries white, run in fright," which is pretty good advice. …

My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My …

Pneumatic dorsal ribs in a selection of ornithodiran taxa. Clades that lack pneumatic ribs have been omitted, including non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs, ornithischians, all early diverging sauropodomorphs, and numerous sauropods. The only included clade for which dorsal …

Ok, not that kind of Introduction. I’ve mentioned before that I find the Introduction the hardest part of a scientific paper to write. I know I’m not alone. It’s easy to wander, or to stuff …

• Watch the video trailer for a class on animal trailing and tracking taught by Casey McFarland, "but also, by extension, appreciating our connection to the natural world and how to view it more discerningly."At …

Written by Cathy Robinson, nature and travel writer, for Naturehood at Earthwatch Europe Have you been lucky enough to spot a pair of copper-coloured eyes peeping out from a hidey hole this spring? If you …

The monks constructed this MASSIVE dovecote in response to the famine of 1360, which towered 24 stories high and accommodated over 1,200 pigeons in its numerous small nesting niches. This structure aimed to offer a …

Regular readers will be aware of my intermittent, occasional articles on the zoos and other animal-based visitor centres of the world, published as and when I remember to do them... Caption: a montage of carnivorans …