David Attenborough

Chas Newkey-Burden’s new book is perfect for when you feel the urge to read but do not have the luxury of commitment. A short, light read, it nevertheless manages to provide a wealth of information about everybody’s favourite naturalist – David Attenborough. This book is an ode not only to the man’s prodigious talent but also to his humility, his classic British sense of humour, and his love for the environment. English naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough with two ring-tailed lemurs during a…

What’s white, weighs roughly one trillion metric tons, and is now heading away from the Antarctic Peninsula? If you guessed iceberg A23a, you’re absolutely right, as this colossal chunk of snow and ice is finally leaving the cradle.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie Iceberg A23a managed to dislodge itself from the ocean floor in November 2023, but its story actually began 37 years earlier. West Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Sheet birthed the behemoth in 1986, but shortly after its emergence, iceberg A23a…

Prehistoric Planet showcases dinosaurs as the itchy, curious, clumsy, and vocal animals they were in life. Apple TV+ today released the teaser trailer for the scientific dinosaur show’s second season, which is set to debut on May 22.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesLast year, for the first time, nature lovers were able to enjoy Sir David Attenborough’s dulcet tones describing planet Earth as no human ever saw it: during the age of the dinosaurs, over66 million years…

There are several moments in the first two episodes of the new Apple TV+ series Extrapolations, which is intended to be a star-studded and terrifyingly realistic look into our potential climate future, that made me laugh out loud when I know I wasn’t supposed to.At the end of the first episode, for instance (there are spoilers throughout this review, by the way), a self-interested developer looking to profit off Arctic warming, played by Matthew Rhys, is literally killed by a walrus. Incredibly, this is portrayed…

The BBC has 4.4 million followers on TikTok, and it posts new videos every couple of hours on its main account. If you work at the venerable British broadcaster, however, the organization says you shouldn’t watch those TikToks. The BBC sent its employees a memo on Sunday, urging them not to download the world’s scariest Chinese app.“We don’t recommend installing TikTok on a BBC corporate device unless there is a justified business reason,” the BBC wrote to staffers, according to Bloomberg. “If you do not need TikTok for…

The huge Deinocheirus in Prehistoric Planet.Image: AppleThink about all the dinosaur content you’ve ever consumed: books, movies, perhaps a Far Side cartoon. Consider how realistic each dinosaurian depiction was, to your best understanding of how dinosaurs lived. Now, I suggest you compare all that you’ve seen about dinosaurs before to Apple TV+’s newest five-part series, Prehistoric Planet, which shows the true lives of dinosaurs as they were 66 million years ago, to our best current understanding.There are reptiles that…