I’ve just written a news story about the mysterious brown-and-white panda for Nature’s online news service (see here). From a journalistic perspective, it’s a very nice story indeed. A mystery, a dose of good science, lots of top scientists, potential
An end to panda bashing, for now
Chris Packham, the British wildlife presenter who said some silly things about pandas last September (see here), says he’s going to “lay-off panda bashing for a while”. This comes towards the end of a somewhat laddish interview that appeared yesterday,
The cunning of conservation genetics
Over in Galapagos, scientists have identified nine giant tortoises in captivity that appear to be descended from the long-extinct Floreana tortoise, a variety assumed to have disappeared more than 150 years ago. Charles Darwin visited Floreana in 1835 though the