Eel be dead, then. The number of eels in the Thames and its tributaries has dropped by 98% in five years, say scientists from the Zoological Society of London. The quantity caught in special test traps (and later released) nosedived from 1500 in 2005 to …
Now here’s something a bit different. An art exhibition entirely devoted to eels. This is a bi-lateral project – Japanese Kyoichi Tsuzuki, an acclaimed photographer, and Londoner Jake Tilson, artist-author-cook, have teamed up to celebrate this most peculiar of fish and its cultural significance in …
Image courtesy of Dan Hershman under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. 99. Fountain of Eels! Whilst trawling through several old, decrepit and dusty books for research, I happened upon Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural History from the late 1800s. In it he mentions a tale that …
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Al Fayed and his Royal Ghouls conspiracy – Macca, Mills and the millions – enough already!! Science Museum specialists to strike over pay… Unsurprising since London’s streets may as well be paved with gold Junior suffrage in action as Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets elected …
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