Los Amigos, a field station in southern Peru, run by the ACA is bristling with life. The lowland forest that surrounds the station is home to 11 species of monkey, jaguars, tapirs, hundreds of bird species and a dazzling variety of arthropods – my personal favourites. One evening at the …
During our Myanmar expedition, the forest of Tamanthi provided many rich pickings and a number of the specimens I collected there are turning out to be undescribed. One day, near the end of our stay there, I was rooting around the stump of a felled tree near our camp and …
During our BBC/Smithsonian expedition to Myanmar our final destination was the fabled Tamanthi Wildlife Reserve, a 2,500 km2 forest in the north …
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 …
For thousands of years humans turned to nature to cure and soothe their ills. Pharmaceutical science built on these ancient foundations and …
Animals come in an enormous variety of shapes, but the body-plan we see cropping up again and again across the constellation of …
[featured image] The biology of ribbon worms is a panoply of peculiarities. For example, take the way they develop. Not content with …
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[featured image] Looking through some specimens from a recent expedition to Burma I found some of these little chaps, featherwing beetles (ptilidae) …