Natural History

It took millennia to find out. 

What’s the meaning of the galloping herds painted on the walls of Lascaux’s cave system?

Chronicling an abusive relationship between people and the animals we have hunted, imprisoned and eaten.

Plant, animal or other? The struggle to categorise jellyfish mirrors the desire to impose a hierarchy on the natural world.

For centuries, one grossly distorted woodcut defined the ideal of a rare beast.

No canine character has played a more crucial role in literature than Bendicò in Lampedusa’s The Leopard.

Exploring Paris, city of horses.

Worms are among the simplest of creatures. But, as Darwin discovered, even they share things in common with humanity.

Britain’s National Parks are a forgotten legacy of postwar reconstruction.