“Nature abhors a vacuum,” so we’re told. Nature also abhors a mess; it likes order and patterns. It likes things to match, it likes things to be symmetrical, and it likes things to resemble trees....
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The dinosaurs reigned on earth for around 66 million years before being unceremoniously extinguished. To put that into perspective, humans have been hanging about for just 200,000 years. That means that dinosaurs were the Lords...
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Woodpecker vs. snake? Yup. It’s not a battle I expected to watch this morning, but that’s the internet for you; a surprise at every turn. I don’t know how the snake got the...
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We all know animals eat each other, heck, we eat other animals, it shouldn’t be a surprise. But sometimes, when you’re presented with nature in its most brutal form, it still has the...
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For the last couple of months, I’ve been taking pictures of real birds interacting with toy dinosaurs. I can’t remember why I decided it was a great idea, but it happened, and I’m glad that it...
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The hoopoe has charmed everyone from ancient Egyptians to the viewers of CBeebies. It’s an amazing species with some impressive quirks… the Estonians aren’t so keen on him though. The hoopoe is a wonderful...
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Having written about the incredible Okefenokee swamp in the US of A and the Great Vasyugan Mire in Siberia I thought it appropriate to continue the theme. So, today, I am proud to introduce...
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The Great Vasyugan Mire is located in Russia, in the Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Tomsk regions. It is epic in the original sense of the word, it covers an incredible 53,000 km² in total. That’s...
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The Blob is a brand new meteorological phenomenon, its whimsical name belies the evil glint in its eye. This fledgling beast is causing the deaths of thousands of marine mammals and birds and at the same...
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“Yes, I loved that pigeon, I loved her as a man loves a woman, and she loved me.” – Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla, born in 1856, was for modern science what Sir Isaac...
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