Browsing: Zoology

I have just returned from a month’s gallivanting around mainland China. It’s taken me 20 years to get there but…

The yeti, as every schoolboy knows, was introduced to the outside world in 1921 when Charles Howard-Bury,…

In the remote depths of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, scientists have found something astonishing: the world’s largest known fish…

I’m talking here about the domestic form of Columba livia, the so-called Rock pigeon or Rock dove. And, while I’ve…

Last week I gave you the second of a series of bird pelvises to try your hand at identifying: This…

Male Anolis proboscis. Photo by Sam Schenker. Ecuador is one of the most biodiversity-rich and unique locations in the world…

Co-author Irina Rotenko Eight years ago, we began following an adult female lynx in the central-southern part of Naliboki Forest,…

Those of us living with cats share our homes with an ancestral predator, one adapted for hunting and the frequent,…

 Jambo! My name is Gaurav Singh-Varma and I am the new research assistant for the Mara Hyena Project based at…

I tested the new SwarovskiOptik ST Balance 14-35×50, a spotting scope using an integrated gyroscope that measure movement over a…