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An Education in Wonder

  I want to begin with a swallow, a butterfly and a frog.  So often now, we see these creatures through the lens of a problem: climate change, pollution, declining populations, changing land use. Before we have even looked closely, the animals have become evidence of something going wrong.  That is true, but it isn’t

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The Stories in Bones

Photo: © The Trustees of NHM, London Visit to the Natural History Museum’s cetacean collection – London, 18th August 2026 A whale skeleton is both an object of science and the remains of a life, a truth that became powerfully clear as David Gray and I followed Richard Sabin, Principal Curator of Mammals at the

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