Decades before the first acorn, hollow in the middle, and building houses to order. Here are seventeen.
1. It Carries More Other Species Than Anything Near It
In the temperate…
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…
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…