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  Mexican marvels: DBC Pierre and the axolotls

  20 Jun 2012: Axolotls are salamander-like creatures that can regrow their limbs, jaws and even spines. DBC Pierre on why he is collaborating on a symphony inspired by the creatures he once kept as pets

• Name that species

  Cartoon, 20 Jun 2012:

  Fee and KJ come up with a new name for the barnacle currently known as sacculina carcini

• Actor Ricky Tomlinson says he's upset after his caravan was stolen

  19 Jun 2012:

  The theft happened in a Cheshire village while he was filming a wildlife documentary

• Prince William condemns rhino horn trade

  19 Jun 2012:

  The prince said people involved in the illegal trade were 'ignorant, selfish and utterly wrong'

• When a tsunami hit a gull colony

  18 Jun 2012:

  Country diary: Hayling Island, Hampshire: At the water's edge lesser black-backed gulls devoured broken eggs and a herring gull snatched up the limp corpse of a chick

• George Osborne a 'bloody idiot' on wildlife protection

  18 Jun 2012:

  The RSPB vice-president John Lawton hits out at the chancellor for his comments on the habitats directive

• Green-o-meter: Is the government keeping its green promises?

  18 Jun 2012:

  David Cameron's pledge to be the 'greenest government ever' goes on trial with the green-o-meter

• Brindalus porcicollis – A shiny sand scarab

  18 Jun 2012:

  A robust little beetle, around 4mm long, with limbs adapted for digging

• Brissopsis lyrifera – Spiny heart in the mud

  18 Jun 2012:

  A reddish-brown heart urchin around 7cm long

• Pocota personata – Hoverfly in disguise

  18 Jun 2012:

  A bee-like hoverfly, with a wingspan around 28mm

• Sacculina carcini – A parasitic barnacle

  18 Jun 2012:

  A female larva of this species attaches itself to a crab and grows branching routes through the unfortunate host

• Poecilobothrus nobilitatus – Glittering green fly

  18 Jun 2012:

  A small, pretty fly with a lime green thorax. The male has conspicuous white wing tips

• Peachia cylindrica – Lurker in the sand

  18 Jun 2012:

  A 12-tentacled anemone with W-shaped markings down each of its limbs

• Halictus eurygnathus – Lost bee of the South Downs

  18 Jun 2012:

  This species of solitary bee, was, until recently, thought to have been extinct in the UK since 1946

• Elysia viridis – Photosynthesising sea-slug

  18 Jun 2012:

  This sea slug has a delicate leaf-shaped body up to 5cm in length, tapering off to a point

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