There is moss on the wall outside, on the north face of a gravestone, in the gaps between paving slabs, along the damp side of a tree. It looks like…
This single misunderstanding, that the mushroom is the fungus, is responsible for most of what people get wrong about fungi. It makes them seem like odd, short-lived things that appear…
Most explanations of bruising stop at the first sentence: a knock breaks small blood vessels under the skin, blood escapes into the tissue, and you can see it. That is…
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Nettles are so ordinary in temperate countries that nobody looks closely at them, which is a shame, because the stinging apparatus is one of the more precisely engineered things…
There is a question that sounds simple and is not: what is the minimum an animal needs in order to be an animal?
Most of the answers people reach for…
There is a category of living thing that is truly difficult to classify, and lichens are the standard example.
The difficulty is not that they are obscure. They are everywhere…