Coral Conservation
Coral reef conservation is an important part of the fight against environmental degradation. But the fight has thus far been, and promises to be a long and hard one. Conservationists and scientists will need all the help they can get.
Tardigrada
Water bear is the friendlier name for a tiny creature so resilient it is able to survive in winter ice and the deepest of oceans.
Diversity within diversity
The geometric form of pollen – the male part of the higher plants – is as strikingly beautiful as the plants from which they come.
Priest, Pachyderm and Pygmy
A theory gone unheeded for decades finally came to the attention of the scientific community and struck gold in 2003, when bones of a new, pygmy-sized hominin species were discovered on the island of Flores, Indonesia.
The Birth of Divergence
In 2014, the Limnonectes larvaepartus, or tadpole-laying frog, was finally characterised as a new species, 25 years since the first individual was discovered in the Wartabone National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
A Knot in Time
Whether they are tied into place as the weaver's imagination wanders, or aligned in code-like calculations, the minuscule knots of a carpet narrate tales of an ancient craft and those who keep it alive.
The False Scorpion
Looking somewhere in between a spider, a lobster and a roach, the pseudoscorpion is the stuff of nightmares.
Powder Blizzard
Earth’s dust dynamics are a complex and poorly understood part of our natural world, and dust storms are merely the most noticeable phenomena.