Described in 1996 from a single specimen found in the window of a forest cabin on the western slopes of Sikhote-Alin mountain in the Russian Far East, Sikhotealinia zhiltzovae is a real blast from the past. Tthe only other representatives of this family (Jurodidae) of beetles are Jurassic fossils. The …
*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 …
A version of this article was originally published in the December 2017 issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine A subterranean city, a …
During our Myanmar expedition, the forest of Tamanthi provided many rich pickings and a number of the specimens I collected there are …
During our BBC/Smithsonian expedition to Myanmar our final destination was the fabled Tamanthi Wildlife Reserve, a 2,500 km2 forest in the north …
For thousands of years humans turned to nature to cure and soothe their ills. Pharmaceutical science built on these ancient foundations and …