Alex Riley

Can we save the frozen continent’s unique fauna?

This giant squid has the world’s biggest light-producing organs. But why?

On Facebook, iPhone messenger, and What’s App, conversation is often silent and devoid of body language. Emotions are condensed to icons on a screen: a happy face, a wink, or a kiss blown to a loved one through LTE and pixels. These emoticons (a portmanteau of “emotion” and “icon”) and emojis (everything else from crocodiles […]

The forgotten story of the woman who discovered how animals get their shape.

The strange plumage of genetically mutated birds.

The tricks they play would make Darwin blush.

Record-efficiency turbine farms are being inspired by sealife.