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…
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…
Busier at two in the morning than at two in the afternoon. Here are fifteen.
1. Foxes Are Not Hunting Your Bins by Accident
Urban foxes hold territories they know…
There is a description of this process that everybody learns and that understates it substantially.
The description is that a tadpole grows legs, loses its tail and becomes a frog…
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Mangroves are the ecosystem most people have never really looked at, and one of the most extraordinary on the planet. They live where nothing else can, do jobs…