*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 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.
[featured image] Insects underpin all terrestrial habitats, but it’s often difficult to know exactly what things they need to thrive. Often, the …