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Stampeding zebras, leaping beetles and a shivering polar bear feature in this year’s RSB Photography Competition shortlist
successful hunt was taken by Amogh Gaikwad. After capturing its dinner, this 15-month old tiger cub decides to play with its dead prey.
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Frozen assets
and were able to generate either spermatozoa or oocytes. The procedures were successful using spermatogonia derived from dead fishes that had been in cold storage for five years[10]. These processes have also been used to help conserve a highly...
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Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes: Socio-cultural Aspects
Edited by Annette Scheersol and Sue Dale Tunnicliffe Springer, £99.99 Dioramas – the positioning of dead, stuffed organisms to create life-like scenes, are probably familiar to most natural history museum visitors. Considered by some as typical of...
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The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation
the distilled essence of English nature. He turns to his friend and asks what she thinks. It’s so quiet, she says, it’s so dead. Where are all the animals? Phenomenon like this — depopulation, extinction, shifting baselines, artificial wildness — and...
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Coral Whisperers: Scientists On The Brink
Professor Les Kaufman of Boston University. “The point of it is to diagnose problems with corals before they’re actually dead… So we’re listening to the corals, this is how they talk.” It’s a complex story of despair and hope, with the author, a lawyer...
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The imitation game
Perhaps rather than any kind of visual monitoring feedback, the system is shaped by selection: get it wrong and you are dead. Other strategies A third level of control, not well studied and difficult to evaluate, is at least partly voluntary....
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Who was...Arthur Milnes Marshall?
controversy; • the common ancestry of related organisms was acknowledged but missing links awaited liberation from the dead stones of palaeontology, including the newly discovered Archaeopteryx; • embryology was suggesting recapitulation, but the story...
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Interview: Liz Bonnin
with David Attenborough, they are the people I really look up to. I’m inspired by them to work and never retire until I drop dead. But, really, there are extraordinary people in every corner of the planet working 24/7 to save a species or better...
