Billions of years ago two bacteria formed a partnership. One lived on inside the other and became a mitochondria. Mitochondria harness energyEnergy and nutrients are the same thing. Plants capture …
It was Octopus Day yesterday so I looked out some footage I took in 2019 of a tropical octopus. What amazing creatures? Did you know, every one of the octopus’s …
Snails ate my letter from Sir David Attenborough! The airmail envelope was sandwiched between glossy election pamphlets and moisture from a day of rain had added red ink stains to …
Wherever you go there is so much mystery and beauty in the natural world. I like to snorkel and dive. Underwater you can still see ecosystems full of wildlife just …
Last week I had a rare encounter with Paper Nautilus in the shallows of Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne, Australia. It was a rather sad event. Every seven years or …
I love looking at ways that wildlife and human lives emulate each other – we are after all, just another animal. So when I found out that flowers are coffee …
Tuna’s Last Stand A really well researched (long read) in Hakai Magazine about the rise of the tinned tuna industry and how this has depleted larger species, leaving Skipjack. The …
When it comes to nature it seems, the more we learn, the less we know. Beaked whales are a group of cetaceans (the collective name for whales and dolphins) that make …
Love, death and sex: curious cases of animal valentine. Debauch acts of sexual deviance, exploitation, adultery, self-harm and even cannibalism, nature knows no bounds.
