The Grand Title award for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 60 has gone to Shane Gross for his captivating image of ribbons of tadpoles swimming through a pond. In The Swarm of Life, a drove of ...
The lantern is used for biting and rasping and is composed of 50 skeletal elements and worked by 60 muscles. It is almost entirely internal, although the tips of the teeth protrude out of the mouth.
Regular sea urchins have a pentaradially symmetrical test composed of ten double columns of plates, five interambulacral zones and five ambulacral zones, which together make up the corona. Ambulacral ...
Welcome to the wonderful world of chalcidoid wasps! Described as "gem-like inhabitants of the woodlands by most never seen nor dreamt of", chalcidoids include some of the most beautiful insects on the ...
During his lifetime Sir Hans Sloane was concerned about the preservation of his collections. Over the years since his death they have had mixed fortunes, with many mammal, bird and reptile specimens ...