The rock musician, Kerr Sharpe-Young, 28, of Blistered Fingers has discovered a 3 million-year-old seal fossil in a large boulder while exploring a beach in New Zealand in 2018. He said the large boulder caught his eye before discovering the fossil. It is the first …
Scientists have learned from the camel about how to keep things cool. They’ve developed a product which can keep objects such as shipping containers at 7°C below the ambient temperature without electrical power. It all happens naturally and is based upon the way camels survive …
Do horses understand that they are running in a race and that there is a winner or loser? Dr Desmond Morris in his book Horsewatching is very firm and clear with his advice, which is that horse racing is an entirely human construct and horses …
The RSPB say that the proposed Sizewell C powerstation earmarked to be built between Dunwich and Aldeburgh could cause catastrophic damage to wildlife because the site is close to RSPB’s Minsmere reserve which is home to 6,000 species. The RSPB chief executive, Beccy Speight, said …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Sainsbury’s had planned to cut down 67 trees in a designated green space in order to triple the capacity of its Guildford supermarket which is surrounded by trees. They wanted to meet a growing demand for online purchases and home deliveries. The …
As mentioned in a previous post, the White House is going to be occupied by dogs again. We know that Joe Biden is a dog lover as is his wife, Jill. He has praised his wife tremendously for her support and he said that she …
The position of a horse’s tail communicates what a horse is thinking and feeling. Some positions are symbolic of the original cause. The original cause of a high tail position is because a horse is accelerating. This results in the muscles of the tail lifting …
I can list eight main sounds that a horse makes thanks to Dr Desmond Morris’s book Horsewatching. I would have thought that like cats and dogs, horses have a wide spectrum of individualised versions of these main vocalisations. One can categorise the sounds but we …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Natalie Kerres from Imperial College, London has taken inspiration from the protective and flexible scales of animals to create SCALED, which, as I understand it, is a fledgling business with great potential concerned with the manufacture of sports clothing designed to support …
