For most of the history of keeping bees, getting honey meant damaging the colony that produced it.
Bees build comb attached to whatever surfaces are available, fused to the walls…
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 well-documented behaviour in animals that explains the entire history of trying to keep birds off crops, and it is almost never mentioned in that context.
The behaviour…
Weathering does not attack rock evenly. It finds cracks, corners and weaknesses, and the shapes left standing are whatever it could not reach. Here are seventeen.
1. The Rock Was…
There is a distinction that changes how a whole category of coastal feature should be thought about, and it comes down to whether something is a population or a structure.…
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…