2016-07-13 13:22
I have no objection to animals being killed for food, providing it is done as humanely as possible. Nor do I object to local people killing wild animals for medicine, pelts or for certain as… Read More
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A blog about bizarre animals, amazing adaptations and beastly behaviour, as well as intimate relationships, record holders and misconceptions about the natural world.
2015-11-18 16:20
Some of the most numerous fossils that have survived into the modern age are those coiled shells left behind by the prehistoric ammonites. When Pliny the Elder first examined the remains of… Read More
2015-06-03 07:31
For thousands of years, giants lived throughout the forests of New Zealand. These were the moa (Polynesian for ‘fowl’), flightless ostrich-like birds that, in some cases, reached… Read More
2015-04-29 13:13
With the UK General Election just over a week away, people will soon be voting on which government they would prefer to see running the country. Most of the general public will probably be m… Read More
2015-03-19 11:21
Wanted: African Clawed Frog
Famous for: Being a living pregnancy test
Crime: Accidentally decimating the world’s amphibian population
The earliest reliable pregnancy tes… Read More
2015-02-14 20:45
Imagine the scenario: you’ve just got a new girlfriend and you’re heading over to her place for the very first time. After some pleasant conversation and a romantic, candlelit di… Read More
2015-01-18 13:02
The longest a human being has ever willingly held their breath without dying or suffering brain damage is just over twenty minutes. Some species of deep-diving whales can manage a little ove… Read More
2015-01-07 09:45
A hundred and fifty years ago, between five and ten billion passenger pigeons flew over the skies of North America. It was not only the most numerous bird in the world at the time, but quite… Read More
2014-12-24 13:46
Christmas Day is almost upon us, so Extraordinary Animals will once again be asking a few quick questions about the natural world – with a Christmas twist, of course! That means mistle… Read More
2014-12-15 14:35
Incest in humans is, and almost always has been, one of the most common of all cultural taboos. Most modern societies have laws regarding incest, not least because children born of close inc… Read More
2014-12-04 11:08
I’ve recently been informed about a new strategy/simulation game called Formicarium that is in development. The aim of the game seems to involve taking control of an ant colo… Read More
2014-12-04 11:08
I’ve recently been informed about a new strategy/simulation game called Formicarium that is in development. The aim of the game seems to involve taking control of an ant colo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
‘Sloths are the lowest term of existence in the order of animals with flesh and blood,’ French naturalist Georges Buffon wrote in the eighteenth century. The man was clearly very… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
One of the most vital turning points in the history of humanity was when we started to domesticate animals. Now, instead of going out to hunt animals for their meat in the wilderness, we cou… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On a tiny copper globe dating from 1507, there are the words hic sunt dracones: ‘here be dragons’. The words appear off the eastern coast of Asia, not far from which are the smal… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The native people of Madagascar have many strange superstitions and customs. ‘Do not sing while you are eating or your teeth will grow long’ is one of them; another is ‘do… Read More
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