This brightly coloured and easily recognizable fish is one of three gurnard species found in UK seas. Collectively, gurnards are known as sea robins.

This remarkable creature shows nature’s fantastic complexity!

The red mason bee is a common, gingery bee that can be spotted nesting in the crumbling mortar of old walls. Encourage bees to nest in your garden by putting out a tin can full of short, hollow…

Another member of the echinoderm phylum, feather stars share some characteristics with true starfish, but also have their very own intriguing adaptations and behaviours, which make them a…

The common red soldier beetle is also known as the 'bloodsucker' for its striking red appearance, but it is harmless. It is a beneficial garden insect as the adults eat aphids, and the…

The last thing you’d expect this extraordinary creature to be is a fish!

This purply-brown seaweed is a common feature on our rocky shores and on our dinner plates.

Britain's largest 'diving beetle' is an impressive creature, though it's not easy to find.

Living up to its name, the red-tailed bumblebee is black with a big, red 'tail'.

This strange furry creature often found washed ashore after storms is actually a kind of worm!

Many of us have felt the painful bite of the twin-lobed deer-fly (a 'horse-fly') while out walking in damp grasses or woods. But mostly, it prefers to feed on the blood of cows and…

This colonial creature looks like an old-fashioned quill - that's where the name sea pen comes from.