Environment
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.
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Culture
Little People of the Andaman Islands
By Jayanta Sarkar, Anthropological Survey of India Additional Information Researchers…
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Environment
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.
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Environment
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.
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Environment, Heritage
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.
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Science
The Smallest Slayers
The tiniest creatures have caused countless deaths, out of which man has earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet’s infinite organisms.
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Culture
The World’s Wee Riches
The romantic, tumultuous history of the spice trade is replete with stories of war, conquest and foul play – all for the sake of tiny grains that changed medicinal, culinary and trade history.
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Environment
The False Scorpion
Looking somewhere in between a spider, a lobster and a roach, the pseudoscorpion is the stuff of nightmares.
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