Blogs about Natural world

This week, 15-21st May is Invasive Species Week, led by APHA’s GB Non-native Species Secretariat (NNSS). Invasive non-native species (INNS) are one of the top five threats to global biodiversity, costing the economy nearly £1.9 …

I know I'm about a year late on this but who cares. Elden Ring is a video game, and it rules. It's the latest in a series of games from a company called FromSoftware where …

Léelo en español Far away and long ago, in a time pre-COVID, I visited the Phu Kradueng National Park in northern Thailand. The park is home to a number of carnivorous plants. I observed Nepenthes …

I acquired another moth trap to go alongside my old second-hand, home-made Robinson with the 40W actinic UV fluorescent U-tube, the portable 20W UV fluorescent Heath, the LepiLED, and, of course, the pheromone trap for …

The East Kootenay region on the south-eastern edge of British Columbia is a land of colossal mountains against a clear blue sky. That is not strictly true, of course, as this area does see its …

Reputed to be the site of ancient rituals, this lovely pool is sheltered in the lee of Iona's highest hill

“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. …

Arid scrublands. Desert washes. Dry grasslands. Perhaps these words don't conjure up images of idyllic natural beauty for most people, but for one very special bird, these marginalized habitats are prime. This bird is just …

Polar bear on sea ice north of Svalbard. Photo by Andreas Weith. From Wikimedia, underthe Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Every so often, the Evolution News site run by the Discovery Institute brings …

For details of varieties I am growing see end of this postRibes is the scientific name for plants of the currant and gooseberry family. Ever since I was a child I have had an interest …

Figure 1 from our 2021 paper on the Snowmass Haplocanthosaurus as I sketched it in my notebook (left) and as it got submitted (right). We shifted part F into a separate figure during the proof …

Photo: Colorado Sun "Pastoral cultures are always violent," I read once in an anthropology book. You know the scenario: two herds are convering on a watering hole from different directions, and the respective herdsmen get …

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 …

Rare Wolverine Spotted in California—the Second in 101 Years There has been an impressive spate of lower 48 sightings lately.

Over recent years, myself and colleagues at the University of Southampton have published a series of studies on the spinosaurid theropods of the English Wealden Supergroup (Barker et al. 2021, 2022, 2023a). And we’ve succeeded …