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      I.    Good people always insist : It's quality rather than quantity that matters [1] .   You'll be a much happier and more au...

A female false widow spider  (SA/2022)     I'm not an arachnologist , but I think that the creature pictured above that I discovered hid...

As the ancient proverb says:  Never let a monkey sneeze in your face, or a shark walk up behind you ...   I.    Steven Salzberg published a...

  Throughout this post, and at this very moment,  I am thinking in you ...     I.    Although Emanuele Coccia thinks every living being is a...

Poster by Extinction Rebellion Art Group rebellion.earth/act-now/resources/art-group/ What does it mean to rebel against extin...

One of the more amusing oh, if only it were true, stories doing the rounds this week concerns our old friend the octopus ... Accordin...

Image: Shutterstock / Wikicommons / Big Think In the above picture we can observe Ideonella sakainesis happily feasting on a pla...

I. Extinction isn't the End of the World and Change is the Only Constant Professor Chris D. Thomas is an ecologist and evol...

The London Underground Mosquito ( Culex molestus ) When you read reports about global warming, the destruction of the natural worl...

Sudan the rhino (1973 - 2018)  Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros, is dead [insert sad face emoji here ]. The 45-yea...

Photo: Dennis van de Water It is, I suppose, another sign of advancing middle-age when one starts to be more intereste...

According to the latest research, religious worshippers are more instinctive but less intelligent than atheists. For whilst the fai...

According to a report in the New Scientist , blenny fish - fed-up with the predatory behaviour of their aquatic neighbours - are ...

Some creatures have always been happy living synanthropically alongside man and have long been residents of the city. Rats, pigeo...

Reconstruction of Tiktaalik rosae by Obsidian Soul (2012) In 2006, a team of scientists announced their discovery of Ti...