At school in the 1950s, we were taught that only humans were capable of using tools writes Richard Collins. 

Having exhausted the fruit and berry crops of their Nordic homelands, waxwings are heading southwards, writes Richard Collins.

THOSE ancient gods, the sun and moon, appear as circles in the sky, writes Richard Collins.

Despite its reluctance to fly, the roadrunner is not in danger and Richard Collins tells us how the grounded bird keeps thriving.

A young female is only loosely related to the other members of her pod, because they all have different fathers, writes Richard Collins.

The country’s zoologists and wardens have become world leaders in alien species eradication. Can we learn from them? asks Richard Collins

Richard Collins looks at the evolution of the baculum or penis bone that has long disappeared from the human race but still appears in some mammals.