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What is a Nudibranch?
Nudibranchs, also known as sea slugs, are much like their land-based relatives that you may spot in your garden. But, unlike your regular garden slug, the nudibranch can incorporate the stinging…
What a hoot!
To celebrate the end of another disrupted school year, 60 pupils from Kingston Park Primary School in Newcastle have been busy enhancing their knowledge of tawny owls with nearby wildlife charity…
What would the Romans say?
When the Romans started building Hadrian’s Wall in 122 AD, little did they know that in 2020, people would be locked in their houses but still able to walk along what is left of its 80 Roman mile…
What goes around comes around
There’s a fundamental and well known principle in geology; it goes like this: the present is the key to the past. Aka Uniformitarianism. What it means is that the processes that are happening…
Change what you eat
Buy local produce, eat more plant-based foods and reduce your food miles to shrink your environmental footprint.
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
Watch what you wash away
Some cosmetics, soaps, washing-up liquids and cleaning products can be harmful to wildlife with long-lasting effects.
What Climate Crisis? Are you listening?
Greta Thunberg’s repeated question: ”Are you listening?” meaning, are you really taking notice enough to act on behalf of this failing world now we have a climate and an extinction emergency on…
Honeycomb worm
Ever spotted a honeycomb-like mound on the beach and wondered what it was? It's a reef built entirely by worms!
Rock dove
The wild rock dove is the ancestor to what is probably our most familiar bird - the feral pigeon, which is often found in large numbers in our towns and cities.
Small-spotted catshark
Small-spotted catsharks used to be called lesser-spotted dogfish - which might be what you know them best as. It's the same shark, just a different name!