Sir Richard Owen: The man who ‘invented’ dinosaurs
IN a gloomy recess on the second floor of the Natural History Museum in London there stands a lonely statue.…
Browsing: Nature Matters
Natural arches, stacks and stumps
AS a youth, I would occasionally cycle 13km from my home in West Cornwall to Land’s End – a granite…
State of world’s migratory species in 2024
FREQUENTLY in the news are the plight of human migrants around our world and those especially from developing countries who…
Parrots or pirates?
IT was one autumnal day, as a seven-year-old, that I finished reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous book ‘Treasure Island’, in…
The undisputed evidence of climate change
RELATIVELY recently, I departed in the late evening from London’s Heathrow airport on a Malaysia Airlines flight bound for Kuching.…
Dragons — fabled and in real life
I MUST admit that I have been a fan of the TV series ‘Merlin’, which involves a young sorcerer visiting…
Tu-whit, Tu-who – A merry note
IT was two weeks ago, whilst reading Robert WC Shelford’s book ‘A Naturalist in Borneo’, published in 1916, that I…
After over 60 years, the rediscovery of an elusive egg-laying mammal
SOME readers may well remember the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics and even the names of the three mascots, Syd (after…