Strawgirl by Jackie Kay 272pp, Macmillan, £10.99 Jackie Kay, prolific poet and past winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, has written a magic-realist novel for younger readers. Magic realism is not ...

LightBox presents a selection of recent news images that reveal the endless wonders of the animal kingdom. Whether cute and cuddly, wild or exotic, animals hold a fascination in all humans. BBC ...

LightBox presents a selection of recent news images that reveal the endless wonder of the animal kingdom. Whether cute and cuddly, wild or exotic, animals hold a fascination in all humans. BBC ...

Scientists should use magic tricks to better understand animal intelligence and perception, argue a team of researchers in a new paper. The idea makes sense, particularly when humans and animals can ...

Source: Funkdooby, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Elias Garcia-Pelegrin first learned to perform magic as an undergraduate student. Now, as part of his doctoral ...

MARTIN Mere Wetland Centre is opening its doors for the annual wildlife spectacular Animal Magic later this month. Animal Magic is the centre’s most popular family event, with over 5000 people ...

This blog will be therapeutic. It will scratch an itch, a peculiar fascination I have with the narratives of individual animals. In my first book Lonesome George, I used the tragic tale of the ...

Best known for its esteemed Zoo Tycoon games, this year Blue Fang has expanded the reach of its animal centric titles to iPhone with Lion Pride, and DS and Wii platforms with the THQ published World ...

Sound science: how elephants hear through their feet is some of the bang-up-to-date research included in this book. (Courtesy: iStock/RelaxFoto.de) Writing a popular-science book about animal ...