The Prehistoric Horses of Lascaux
What’s the meaning of the galloping herds painted on the walls of Lascaux’s cave system?
Natural History
Interspecies Violence
Chronicling an abusive relationship between people and the animals we have hunted, imprisoned and eaten.
The Jellyfish Problem
Plant, animal or other? The struggle to categorise jellyfish mirrors the desire to impose a hierarchy on the natural world.
Dürer’s Enduring Rhino
For centuries, one grossly distorted woodcut defined the ideal of a rare beast.
Isle of Dogs
No canine character has played a more crucial role in literature than Bendicò in Lampedusa’s The Leopard.
Horse Power
Exploring Paris, city of horses.
The Intelligence of Earthworms
Worms are among the simplest of creatures. But, as Darwin discovered, even they share things in common with humanity.
The Great Migration Mystery
It was once believed that swallows spent their winters on the Moon, or asleep on river beds.
Park Life
Britain’s National Parks are a forgotten legacy of postwar reconstruction.
The World of Medieval Dogs
The people of medieval Europe were devoted to their dogs; one great French dog-lover declared that the greatest defect of the species was that they ‘lived not long enough’.