‘They come right past the house’: learning to live with rhinos as numbers soar in Nepal The country is seeing an increase in human-wildlife conflict as the number of megafauna, including rhinos and tigers, grows. But there are efforts to tackle the problem around Chitwan national park th...

So was it an Indian rhino that Dürer drew
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To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked! Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays

Happy birthday, Bill
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'Face lift' for Queensland dinosaur after discovery of 1,300 more bones The dinosaur's face lift has become the butt of online jokes among palaeontology fans, but researchers say it is the most accurate depiction of the creature yet.

A great day for museums

Analysis of 1,300 new dinosaur bones overhauls understanding of Qld fossil emblem www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

"Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy"
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How Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak

How Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/s...

Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found

Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/a...

It Was No Sweat: A Humanoid Robot Races to a Record Finish

They've made a robot that runs faster than humans. Yippee

It Was No Sweat: A Humanoid Robot Races to a Record Finish www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w...

‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

The overlooked world of female birdsong (that gender bias will get everywhere)
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From sleeping lions to spitting snakes: a year in the life of London zoo vets As the zoo celebrates its 200th birthday, photographer David Levene captures the people keeping their (sometimes very dangerous) patients healthy and happy. Introduction: Patrick Barkham

From sleeping lions to spitting snakes: a year in the life of London zoo vets
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Humans Who Used a Bear Suit to Defraud Car Insurers Are Sentenced to Jail

🙃

Humans Who Used a Bear Suit to Defraud Car Insurers Are Sentenced to Jail www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Four benefits of going out in the rain Humans are more sensitive to the smell of rain than sharks are to blood. But rain also has some surprising benefits for our bodies – especially when it comes to our mood.

I'm not sure I was enlightened when I was caught out in the storm yesterday
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Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1 Fridge magnets are more than tacky souvenirs. They're vessels for our memories.

Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:

ME: time to sleep

BRAIN: have you ever noticed that Huey Dewey and Louie all rhyme but nearly every syllable is spelled differently

A praying mantis on my light while camping at Gluepot Reserve.

Have a good laugh peeps. 😂

If He Leaves You on a Mountain, End Your Relationship

If He Leaves You on a Mountain, End Your Relationship www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/s...

Vegemite is recognised globally – but how many people know Milo was invented in Australia? The chocolate malt powder is sold in more than 40 countries, and Australian cafe owners say there’s ‘jingoistic pride’ in serving it on their menus * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email When I order the jumbo-sized Milo Godzilla at Ho Jiak in Sydney’s Haymarket, it arrives as advertised – it’s comically large. The Malaysian restaurant prepares the drink by swirling Milo powder with hot water, adding sweet drizzles of condensed milk then chilling the mix with ice. Scoops of ice-cream are added and extra choc-malt powder is showered on top. Served in a one-litre jug, it’s so big I can’t finish it solo: staff hand me three takeaway cups to transport the leftovers. Like many beloved Milo drinks, the Godzilla is native to south-east Asia. Without ice-cream, it’s essentially a Milo Dinosaur: an iced Milo heavily sprinkled with more of the choc-malt grains and served everywhere from Malaysian market stalls to Indian-Muslim restaurants in Singapore. Continue reading...

Vegemite is recognised globally – but how many people know Milo was invented in Australia?

Robin of Sherwood - Season 1 Opening credits YouTube video by Classic TV Zone

RIP Máire Brennan.
You can hear her amazing voice in Clannad's stunning song 'Harry's Game', but us old folks will also remember her from this beauty:
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Tributes paid to singer Moya Brennan: ‘Her voice was the signature sound of Clannad’ Celebrated musician won a Grammy and an Emmy during hugely successful career

Clannad is often described as ethereal but they also never lost touch with their toe-tapping pub band roots, which kept them firmly grounded. Brennan’s voice and harp were divine.

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"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, an air freshener and a tin of sardines"

Simon & Garfunkel, the online shop item replacement version

The Met photo shows a mould-blown translucent dark blue hexagonal-shaped flask (amphoriskos) signed in Greek with the name of the glassmaker ‘Ennion’ (not seen in image). Displayed against a graduated dark to light grey background. The flask has a short cyclindrical neck, hexagonal sloping shoulders curving inwards towards the hexagonal straight-sided body which tapers downwards towards the base. It has two thin handles attached at the top of the shoulders and top of the rim. The mould blown glass has relief decoration associated with the god Dionysus and his retinue on the shoulders and five of the six body panels; double flutes, pan pipes, wine cup, wine jug, and vine leaves and grapes. On the sixth panel is the Greek inscription in three lines of parallel text ENNIWN/EΠWH/CEN translated as ‘Ennion made me/it’. The bottom of the flask is broken in places and the body has patches of creamy brown weathering with faint iridescence. Height: 14.3 cm, width 7.9 cm, depth: 7.2 cm “Mould-blowing developed in the early decades of the first century A.D. as an offshoot of free-blowing. The earliest makers of mould-blown glass probably came from the Syro-Palestinian region, although their wares quickly became popular throughout the Roman Empire. The most famous and attractive vessels are signed in Greek by Ennion; about thirty examples of his work survive today”(Met Museum info label). The flask was excavated in 1876 in Potamia, near Golgoi, Cyprus, by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, entering his private collection. It was purchased from Cesnola before 1879 by Jules Charvet. In 1881 purchased from Charvet by Henry G. Marquand who gifted it to the Metropolitan Museum in 1881.

A 2,000 year-old Roman-era cobalt blue glass flask signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. A Greek inscription reads ‘Ennion made me/it’. He is the first known glassmaker to sign his work.

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#Archaeology

two men are standing next to each other with the caption " is that a lot " above them ALT: two men are standing next to each other with the caption " is that a lot " above them

A movie couple that would definitely have a podcast.

Race to save Brisbane River's very hungry Australian lungfish Researchers hope they have found a way for a fascinating living fossil to once again breed in the Brisbane River, but hunger is making it harder.

Believed to be the closest living fish relative to humans, the Australian lungfish has remained anatomically unchanged for more than 100 million years.
Researchers hope they have found a way to save it from extinction (after just 200 years of colonisation).

#auspol
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A duck tries to eat the camera

Unsolicited duck pic.
Yesterday, I went to the show.
Olympic Park, Wangal Country

How the Scimitar-Horned Oryx Became a Conservation Unicorn Ten years after its reintroduction to the wild, herds are thriving, but the harsh realities of life in the Sahel mean the fight’s not over yet

oryxes are said to be the blueprint for ancient tales of unicorn
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I love theatre with some actual and clever stage design
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Celebrities Need Passport Photos, Too

In a photo studio on Oxford Street in London, David Sharkey did the impossible: he created hundreds of flattering passport photos. 
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"You shall not pass!"
A bearded dragon standing guard at the track to Kelly Dam.
Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

Happy #Cerealia! To ensure a plentiful harvest, #Romans honored #Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, with sacrifices of grain, incense and pigs in an eight-day festival from 12th to 19th of April. Image: Empress Livia wreathed in the guise of the goddess Ceres. British Museum.