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There has been a lot of research into how seabirds choose their flight paths and find food. They seem to use their sight or sense of smell to assess local conditions....

Men and women might have had their fingers deliberately chopped off during religious rituals in prehistoric times, according to a new interpretation of palaeolithic cave art....

It has been another catastrophic climate year: record-breaking wildfires across Canada scorched an area the size North Dakota, unprecedented rainfall in Libya left thousands dead and displaced, while heat deaths surged in Arizona and severe drought in the Amazon is threatening Indigenous communities and ecosystems....

Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological record roughly 40,000 years ago, have long been considered our closest evolutionary relatives. But almost since the first discovery of Neanderthal remains in the 1800s, scientists have been arguing over whether Neanderthals constitute their own species or if they’re...

I went out for a curry with some friends last night, have a fairly straightforward day at work today then a pizza this evening and have a day booked off on Monday: I have some DIY lined up over the weekend....

With, I think, a male red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) doing bumblebee stuff.

Another naturalised introduction, this one from Eurasia, first recorded in the UK in the C19th.

Kickin’ in the front seat or sittin’ in the back seat: which is it today folks?...

Blood on the corn, harvest in the horn, may you never hunger, may you never thirst!

Blood on the corn, harvest in the horn, may you never hunger, may you never thirst!

I had a good Sunday lunch at the pub and a relaxed afternoon yesterday, have a relatively sane looking week lined up at work and then out for an outdoor Shakespeare play (rain permitting) on Friday.

With a Bombus sp. - either terrestris or leucorum - going about its business.

What’s lined up for today - or for the weekend then?...