Alexander Lee

Should the finger of blame be pointed at the marmot for the global spread of the plague?  

It took millennia to find out. 

What’s the meaning of the galloping herds painted on the walls of Lascaux’s cave system?

Putting a pig on trial appears to defy logic, but in medieval France it gave rural folk the illusion of order in a frightening world. 

Plant, animal or other? The struggle to categorise jellyfish mirrors the desire to impose a hierarchy on the natural world.

For centuries, one grossly distorted woodcut defined the ideal of a rare beast.

No canine character has played a more crucial role in literature than Bendicò in Lampedusa’s The Leopard.

Worms are among the simplest of creatures. But, as Darwin discovered, even they share things in common with humanity.