I have been writing features for the museum’s website since 2015.

• A deep dive into sea kraits, sea snakes and their aquatic adaptations
• Great white sharks: Dangerous man-eaters or marine marvels?
• How dung beetles keep the world clean
• Wild parakeets in the UK: exotic delights or a potential problem?
• Peregrine falcons are the top birds in town
• Risking life and limb for venom
• The asteroid adventurer
• How penguin suits are inspiring future fabrics

Are Ravens as fast as on Game of Thrones?

Country Diaries

I wrote country diaries for the Guardian’s long-running column from 2015 to 2021.

• The beavers are busy – but elusive
• Speckled woods are bold and beautiful
• Nature is taking back control of the golf course
• The telltale signs of a woodmouse
• Voles are on the menu for saltmarsh visitor
• A thoroughly modern meadow
• These hardy honeybees could help our ailing apiaries
• Only the adolescent seals still hang out here
• A busy time for spiders
• Autumn is particularly busy for the red squirrels of Formby
• Out for the count: An evening vigil with bat conservationists
• A treasure trove of beetles
• Rattle and screech as jays and magpies go on raptor alert
• Shy dragonfly of the boggy moss
• Serenaded by a male voice choir – of toads
• Under the graveyard sleep the bats
• Rare beauty of the washed out mountain nymph
• The devil’s birds reveal their tender side

I have written assorted reviews, interviews and features for BBC Wildlife Magazine since 2017.

The links below are to select publications available via pressreader.com

• TV review: Life in Colour
• Meet the scientist: Paul Sein Twa
• Meet the Scientist: Wesley Larson

I have written features for the blog section of bbcearth.com (produced by BBC Studios):

• Arboreal animals
• Extraordinary female animals
• Saving the European salmon
• The animals harmed by superstition
• How to help wildlife on holiday
• Meet the dogs saving endangered species
• Britain’s busiest autumn animals
• Are your internet habits harming wildlife?
• The animals that deserve to be superheroes
• The toughest animals on Earth are not what you’d expect

I wrote feature articles for the bbc.com/earth website (produced by BBC Worldwide) from its launch in 2014 to its rebrand in 2017.

Note: The pages were erased by the BBC in 2021 because support was withdrawn for the template they were created in. The links here are available thanks to the Wayback Machine so are slow to load.

• The most powerful punches and kicks of all time
• The largest and smallest sex cells on the planet
• The blue whale is not the only animal with a huge appetite
• The places on Earth where nature is most likely to kill you
• The strange inspirations behind Greek myths
• The world’s strongest animal can lift staggering weights
• The place furthest from land is known as Point Nemo
• The greatest jumper on Earth is probably not a flea
• One creature had a bite more powerful than any other
• Earth’s saltiest place makes the Dead Sea look like tap water
• The world’s worst stinger has a surprising owner
• Meet the animals that travel farther than any other
• The organisms that glow brighter than any other
• The biggest beast that ever flew had wings longer than a bus
• The longest animal alive may be one you never thought of
• The world’s largest rats are the size of small dogs
• The world’s loudest animal might surprise you
• The world’s largest spider is the size of a dinner plate
• One animal has more babies than any other
• Meet the most massive dinosaur to ever stomp the Earth
• Which spot on Earth gets the most sunlight?
• Which animal is the deadliest hunter on the planet?
• The world’s biggest spider web can span an entire river
• What makes a winning wildlife photograph?
• What is the sleepiest animal on Earth?
• One animal is more venomous than any other
• Where is the windiest place on Earth?
• The furriest animal in the world
• What’s the wettest place on Earth?
• Ten animal outbreaks that look like biblical plagues
• The fattest animal on Earth
• Earth’s most poisonous plants
• The most electric place on Earth
• Giant animals that are almost impossible to find
• Ten animals that have evolved see-through bodies
• Meet ten animals that look like real-life unicorns
• Ten real-life animals that are dragons
• Battle of the Ants

I also wrote feature articles for bbc.co.uk/earth (produced by BBC) from 2014 to 2016:

• Barnacle gosling’s terrifying cliff tumble
• The truth about hippos: Herbivore or cannibal?

Finally, I contributed to the BBC Earth print magazine

• Profile: Maria Norman [pdf] Interview with BBC Natural History Unit Manager

I wrote features for Chester’s local creative magazine Tortoise

• History, haven, mere and moss [pdf] Cheshire’s heritage of nature writing
• Salmon Seekers [pdf] How Chester contributes to salmon science

15 questions spiders need to answer right now, explained by science

I wrote a number of feature articles and quizzes for the Bristol 2015: European Green Capital website.

Note: The site was decomissioned in 2018, content is partially available thanks to the mighty Wayback Machine.

• Be a wildlife photographer
• The wild side of the docks
• Q&A with Simon King
• 12 tips for nestbox newbies
• Supporting wildlife in small spaces
• Nature writers’ favourite reads
• Nature quiz
• Where are Bristol’s best bluebells?
• Birdsong quiz
• Bristol birds are Springwatch stars
• Saving city swifts
• Wild half term tips
• Bristol’s plastic problem
• Midsummer quiz
• How to make your own meadow
• Whale quiz
• Bristol’s twilight wildlife
• Pollinator quiz
• Bristol’s bird highway
• Going to seed
• Spider season
• Bristol’s liveliest cemetery
• The rush to rut at Ashton Court
• Fungi Quiz
• Bristol’s winter wildlife
• Green resolutions

Do butterfly wing patterns really mimic predator eyes?

I created news articles, features, photo galleries, and audiovisual content for the BBC Nature website from its launch in May 2011 to April 2014.

Note: The pages were taken down by the BBC in 2018 as they were considered technologically outdated. The links here are available thanks to the Wayback Machine so are slow to load.

I created news and feature articles for BBC Earth news from 2010 until its rebranding in 2011.

• Seal whiskers sense fattest fish
• Spotted bowerbirds mimic alarm calls when stressed
• Unique inventory of traditional orchards from above
• GPS backpacks track NZ hedgehogs
• Bonobos ‘chat’ about good foods
• Adaptable urban birds have bigger brains
• Fallow deer stags butt-in to assert dominance
• Red and Arctic foxes clash in Russia
• Colourful-billed mallard ducks have fewer STDs
• Cannibal wolf spiders are ladykillers
• Rare albatross is unique species
• Beaked whales ‘scared’ by navy sonar
• Two new species of stingray discovered in Amazon
• Bat navigation explained by robotic moth experiment
• New hope for world’s rarest lemur species in Madagascar
• Sharp teeth aid bats’ fruit diets
• Snake-bites: a growing, global threat
• Labord’s chameleons of Madagascar live fast, die young
• Promiscuous apes make more sperm
• Bizarre mammals filmed calling using their quills
• Ravens stressed by ‘gang life’
• Madagascar’s elusive shell-squatting spider filmed
• Whale sharks: Biggest fish could be even bigger
• Frogs re-evolved lost lower teeth
• Year of the threatened rabbit
• Bats in Borneo roost in carnivorous pitcher plants
• Polar bear’s epic nine day swim in search of sea ice
• Iran’s endangered cheetahs are a unique subspecies
• European beavers construct ideal habitats for bats
• Curious crows use tools to explore dangerous objects
• Male and female butterflies ‘take turns courting’
• Blood-sucking fish feed on whales
• Urban marmosets avoid pet threat
• Dust mites ‘swarm’ around houses
• The beauty of British butterflies
• The decade’s wildest discoveries
• Crocs dispel ‘living fossil’ myth
• Giant panda breeding breakthrough in China
• How flying fish got their ‘wings’
• ‘Old maid’ butterflies fly more frequently
• Cuckoos are no match for local reed warblers
• Unique mammals struggling for survival
• What is the UK’s most deadly animal?
• Caiman attacks wildlife presenter filming in Argentina
• Slave-making ants target the strong not the weak
• European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010
• Power lines ‘invisible’ to birds
• The Twilight Zone: where animals battle for dominion
• New species of snub-nosed monkey discovered in Myanmar
• Penguins flirt with homosexuality
• Sparrows identify ‘troublemakers’ from innocent birds
• Elusive Scottish wildcats filmed
• Toxic algae rapidly kills coral
• Europe’s smallest fish found in Shetland
• Dark Steller’s sea eagle solves 100 year debate
• Why lions roar and wildcats miaow