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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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The secrets your teeth hold

Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.

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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Drawing the human animal

We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.

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  • A selection of named rodents, marsupials and small carnivorous mammals. Etching.
  • French sailors throwing manacled black soldiers off a ship into the a sea populated by large carnivorous animals. Engraving by J. Barlow after M. Rainsford.
  • Cat tongue, longitudinal section
  • Puppy and zonal placenta, canine
  • Cat lip
  • Stomach from a neonatal dog, longitudinal section
  • Cat lip
  • Sundew (Drosera sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Cat tongue, cross section
  • A flowering butterwort plant (Pinguicula vulgaris) and two pinnae (fins). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1824.
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