*A shorter version of this article was published as The Spice of Life in BBC Wildlife Magazine (Issue 435, February 2018)* Futurists who have read too many comics and billionaire technologists fuel the human ego with visions of interstellar travel and terraforming the cold, dead dust of Mars. Theirs is a …
During our BBC/Smithsonian expedition to Myanmar our final destination was the fabled Tamanthi Wildlife Reserve, a 2,500 km2 forest in the north of the country. Home to tigers and elephants, this reserve also once supported Javan and Sumatran rhinoceros, both of which may have clung on into the 1980s, but …
The graphic below explores animal diversity with key information on each of the main lineages as well as how they are all related.
The Ctenophora is a small, but morphologically diverse lineage of animals. The graphic below is an introduction to these animals. A short …