Five members of staff from BBC Radio Solent are among teams across the country taking on a swimming challenge for Children in ...

Interesting facts: They are an endangered species with fewer than 1,000 left in the wild. Scientific Name: Sicalis flaveola Length: 5.5-6 in (15 cm) Weight: 0.7-0.8 oz (12-24 g) Wingspan: Unknown What ...

Saffron can be bought whole in threads or strands (stigmas) or in powdered form. Spanish and Kashmiri saffron are reputed to be among the best-quality. Saffron gives a distinctive aroma and ...

As well as a spectacular location, Pampore is India's centre for saffron - a spice so valuable that it is sometimes called red gold. Derived from the crocus plant, saffron fetches around $1,500 ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

Last year her window box showed off the Supertunia, Mini Vistas Sweet Sangria, Yellow and Indigo along with the new ...

The spice saffron, as well as being famously expensive, is packed with antioxidants. It is said to help combat depression and lower blood pressure, to soften your skin and hair and is essential in ...

A woman has gone viral for taking in a sick fox and raising it as her own pet for four years. Saffron Gloyne first met the wild animal, which she named Gavin, when he wandered into her back garden.

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

The finches that call Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands home are biological rock stars, as they provided a key piece of evidence for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. One reason for this is how ...

Biologists have identified a key connection between ecology and speciation in Darwin's finches, famous residents of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Prior work on these birds had established that ...

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