Author Peter Marren

Peter Marren

Recent articles by Peter Marren
Lycaenidae / Lepidoptera

8 British animals that are now extinct in the world

We are facing a mass extinction, with many species now endangered or lost forever. Here, Peter Marren gives us a run down of the British animals that are now extinct – and a few which we thought were too, but happily turned out not to be.
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Teasel at sunset/Credit: Getty Images

12 seeds to find and identify this autumn

Many late-summer flowers are now in seed. We have illustrated 12 distinctive species to look for this autumn.
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The weird world of the bug

For centuries, ‘bugs’ have entered our lives and thoughts in countless ways. We explore the always fascinating, often amusing and occasionally revolting meeting ground between people and bugs. 
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