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Eating their own kind

In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.

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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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A brief history of tattoos

The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.

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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections

A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.

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  • A polar bear is devouring its prey, a seal, on an ice floe in the Arctic sea while three arctic foxes watch eagerly from an adjacent ice floe. Colour lithograph.
  • Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1806.
  • Agnes Deans Cameron, the Arctic explorer, feeding a titbit to her pug dog. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • An arctic fox. Colour lithograph by J Brandard after Captain Ross.
  • A whale being speared with harpoons by fishermen in the Arctic sea. Engraving by A. M. Fournier after E. Traviès.
  • In chronic bronchitis and asthma Choledyl provides effective theophylline blood levels for more than 6 hours : Arctic or Richardson's skua.
  • In chronic bronchitis and asthma Choledyl provides effective theophylline blood levels for more than 6 hours : Arctic or Richardson's skua.
  • Eight different specimen of seals sitting on ice floes in the Arctic sea. Coloured etching by J. Bower after J. Stewart.
  • A polar bear standing on an ice floe in the Arctic sea. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A polar bear standing next to its prey, a dead seal, on an ice floe in the Arctic sea. Colour lithograph after W. Kuhnert.
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Land Body Ecologies Festival Day Four

Online | In our building
Past

Part of Land Body Ecologies Festival

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Land Body Ecologies Festival Day Three

Online | In our building
Past

Part of Land Body Ecologies Festival

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Land Body Ecologies Festival Day Two

Online | In our building
Past

Part of Land Body Ecologies Festival

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