Peter Cavanagh has, he says, taken more than 800,000 photos of flying birds.  Even in an era of digital...

Every once in a while you stumble on a new natural history book that seems destined to be a...

Darwin Day is February 12th, and for an early celebration I thought I’d take a look at a book...

They call it a shell pit because of the vast array of fossilized mollusks who once lived and died...

We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events...

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period...

Birding in Israel? Report your sightings to help build an eBird-like database of the country’s avifauna. New studies find...

I’ve been down with an odd illness for a few weeks, and then I flew to Mexico and back...