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Saturday, 30 December 2017
Student Discovers New Species of Giant Octopus
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New Species Of Turtle Is Discovered In Alabama
This Sneaky Octopus Species Managed to Bamboozle Scientists for Years
Friday, 29 December 2017
Attenborough and empire of ants
TV Natural World: Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants review – another fascinating insight into the insect world Our greatest naturalist gives the impression he would spend all day watching ants fight, if he could. Plus: Still Open All Hours catches the mood of the post-Christmas lull  Tim Dowling Fri 29 Dec ‘17 06.00 GMT The Jura mountains on the Swiss-French border give their name to the Jurassic period, thanks to the limestone strata first identified there. They are also home to a lot of ants, which may not sound that exciting at first; ants are everywhere. In Natural World: Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants (BBC2), Sir David Attenborough kneels in the snow over an ant mound, looking cold. The nest contains hibernating wood ants, waiting out the freezing Jurassic winter, kept warm by the slow decomposition of their spruce needle mound. At the first sign of spring, sentry ants pop out for a look around, but these specific wood ants are more famous for what they don’t do. Generally speaking, wood ants like a fight. The ants from a single colony are all related, thanks to their queen mum, and when they meet other wood ants from a neighbouring nest, they go to war, piercing rivals with their mandibles and squirting formic acid into the wounds to dissolve their enemy’s innards. It is a tremendously costly way of doing business, although the winners get to eat the losers. Attenborough’s ants don’t do that – they are on friendly terms with other nests, and are thus able to form super colonies half a billion ants strong, spread over more than a thousand mounds linked by 100km of trails. Which is not to say these wood ants abjure violence in all its forms. They are quite capable of hunting down a wolf spider, killing it and dragging it back to their nest. The super colony, says Attenborough, “makes hundreds of millions of kills every year”. They will take down caterpillars, beetles, even butterflies. It takes a lot of work to make fascinating television out of what is, essentially, a bunch of ants, but the narrative arc of their breeding habits is indeed extraordinary. Deep in their mounds the queens – up to a million per super colony – start laying. Their first eggs will produce the next breeding generation – a sort of royal household. These ants, males and females both, will sprout wings. After the larvae hatch, the worker ants head out to collect food, hunting more spiders or farming aphids, which excrete a sticky honeydew that ants love. Meanwhile, the identical, but decidedly less cooperative wood ants on the other side of the mountain are still busy killing each other. One gets the impression that if he could, Sir David would spend all day lying on the grass, watching ants fight. Maybe he did. Once the winged royal family hatch, they fly off and mate. The males die almost immediately afterward; the females shed their wings and become queens. At this point, regular wood-ant queens pursue a high risk strategy, infiltrating a field ant colony and keeping a low profile, but the super colony affords plenty of opportunity for queens to start a new life elsewhere, or just stay at home. The ability to film ants going about their business in extreme close-up requires specialist equipment – a one-off contraption called Frankencam – or Frank for short. Frank has come a long way since Attenborough first encountered it 12 years ago, but it is basically still a long mechanical arm with a tiny camera at one end, employing a miniature lens exactly like the one in your phone. As ever, the back end of the programme was a tribute to those tireless operators who endure bad weather, extreme tedium and ants in their pants in order to get these difficult shots. Hats off.  Leroy (James Baxter) and Granville (David Jason). Photograph: BBC/Gary Moyes Open All Hours, starring Ronnie Barker and David Jason, ran for 26 episodes between 1973 and 1985. Still Open All Hours (BBC2), a sequel which kicked off with a 2013 Boxing Day special, has now topped this: the latest series will bring it to 27 episodes. In the updated version, Jason’s Granville – spookily channelling Dame Maggie Smith – has inherited his uncle’s shop, although the ghost of the old man still manifests itself as a greedy and uncooperative cash register. This revisit is no doubt intended as a seasonal dose of fuzzy nostalgia, but over several series, the show has developed an airless, claustrophobic quality, even a faintly sinister atmosphere. The plot, such as it is, involves dreams of escape. Mr Newbold wants to be free of the attentions of Mrs Featherstone, and Madge plans to take Mavis to a hotel for Christmas. But these modest ambitions are cruelly thwarted; everything is restored to its default setting of quiet despair. A joke about unopenable Christmas crackers seems positively self-defeating. And everyone has to go to that terrible, terrible shop, because it is Still Open. For my money, this show perfectly catches the mood of the post-Christmas lull, but I imagine small children would find it scary. Topics Television Last night's TV David Attenborough reviews Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger most viewed tv & radio music film stage books games art & design classical back to top  jobs dating become a supporter make a contribution guardian labs about us work for us advertise with us contact us ask for help terms & conditions privacy policy cookie policy securedrop digital newspaper archive complaints & corrections all topics all contributors modern slavery act facebook twitter subscribe © 2017 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
Saturday, 23 December 2017
Ancient dolphin species Urkudelphis chawpipacha discovered in Ecuador
Tiny scorpion packs a punch
Tripura hosts a newly identified species that has large and powerful pincers
Newly Discovered Underwater Spider Named 'Desis Bobmarleyi' After Reggae Legend Bob Marley
These Deep Sea Worms Without Butts Likely Haven't Evolved For Millions of Years
New study: Snake fungal disease may now be a global threat
Dolphin pod living year-round off coast of England
World's ugliest pig' caught on camera
Saturday, 16 December 2017
Fossil hunters find bones of human-sized penguin on New Zealand beach
Fossils of 75 million-year-old dinosaur that looked like a MUTANT swan with a reptilian tail are found by stunned archaeologists in Mongolia
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Lost and found after 130 years: A bee-mimicking moth
Ancient Greece was infested with human parasites: Archaeologists find oldest evidence of parasitic worms described 2,500 years ago by Hippocrates
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Dinosaur parasites trapped in 100-million-year-old amber tell blood-sucking story
Researchers discover ancient shark 'older than SHAKESPEARE' in species that could live until its 600 years old
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
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Saturday, 9 December 2017
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Fossils of 75 million-year-old dinosaur that looked like a MUTANT swan with a reptilian tail are found by stunned archaeologists in Mongolia
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Fossils of a fearsome lion species with blade-like teeth that has been extinct for at least 18 million years are discovered in the Australian outback
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Tuesday, 5 December 2017
DAVID Attenborough AND THE GIANT ELEPHANT
Sunday 10.12 2017 9.00pm-10.00pm BBC ONE NEW David Attenborough investigates the remarkable life and death of Jumbo the elephant - a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the movie Dumbo. Attenborough joins a team of scientists and conservationists to unravel the complex and mysterious story of this large African elephant - an elephant many believed to be the biggest in the world. With unique access to Jumbo’s skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History, the team work together to separate myth from reality. How big was Jumbo really? How was he treated in captivity? And how did he die? Jumbo’s bones may offer vital clues. Arriving in London Zoo in 1865, Jumbo fast became a firm favourite of Queen Victoria and her children, and was nicknamed the Children’s Pet. Yet behind the scenes, this gentle giant was living a double life - smashing his den, breaking his tusks and being pacified by large amounts of alcohol given to him by his keeper Matthew Scott, who had a deep empathy for animals, developing a particularly strong and near mystical bond with Jumbo. Then, quite suddenly, London Zoo caused public outrage by selling Jumbo to PT Barnum’s circus in America where he travelled with his devoted keeper to start a new life. But while his time in America turned him into star with 20 million people coming to see him, his life ended tragically and mysteriously. As well as Jumbo’s skeleton, Attenborough explores the lives of wild elephants to explain Jumbo’s troubled mind, and he discovers how our attitude to captive elephants has changed dramatically in recent years.