1. It Begins in the Dark
The chorus is not a response to sunrise. The first singers start well before it - in some seasons more than an hour before…
The shiny-things story is false and was tested. The nest has a roof. Here are fifteen.
1. It Does Not Steal Shiny Things, and Somebody Checked
The reputation is close…
A crustacean with gills that drinks through its back end and moults in halves. Here are twelve.
1. It Is Not an Insect
Almost everybody files it with the beetles…
It was everywhere, then it was not, and nobody has settled why. Here are ten.
1. It Was So Common That Nobody Ever Looked at One
For most of recorded…
Hold both arms straight out in front of you and make a small triangle between your thumbs and forefingers, about the size of a coin.
Keeping both eyes open, move…
Hotter than a bath, saltier than the sea, and out of oxygen by teatime. Here are seventeen.
1. It Is the Most Hostile Habitat on the Shore
The instinctive reading…