February 2023

Crop circles have been around for many years – the earliest known one may well date from 1678 and was ascribed to the devil! But what are they? At their simplest they are designs cut into corn fields just ripe for harvest. Early ones tend to be circles arranged in some pattern, while later ones, […]

Have you ever cuddled a gorilla? Well, David Attenborough did, in 1979. You may have seen the clip from his TV programme Life on Earth, where his magical encounter with mountain gorillas seemed too dangerous for ordinary mortals ever to contemplate. Our understanding of mountain gorillas has progressed so much since then that we now