Ian Fraser, talking naturally

This posting concludes a three-part series which explores 'empty' (or at best unhelpful) but laudatory names of organisms. Why? We...

Continuing an old tradition (well OK, 12 months old...), I'm going to celebrate the last day of 2014 by selecting just one photo taken ...

Not really one of my intermittent series on colours in nature - though I'll come back for another of those soon enough - but rather in ...

This is the story - or rather two stories - of two very different groups of tropical rainforest ants, in two continents, which have in co...