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…
It is not lost and it did not come in from the fields. Here are fifteen.
1. It Did Not Come In From the Countryside
The standing assumption is that…
They ignore you all summer, then the colony finishes and they are out of work. Here are fifteen.
1. They Spend the Summer Hunting, Not Scavenging
For most of the…