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What if life on Earth began more than once?! Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Evolution (Heinrich Heine Universi...
22/09/2026

What if life on Earth began more than once?!

Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Evolution (Heinrich Heine University) have found evidence suggesting that while all modern life may share the same ancient genetic code, free-living cells could have emerged independently more than once.

And that could completely change how we think about the origin of life.

Bacteria and archaea are two of the oldest and most fundamental forms of life on Earth. They share the same basic genetic code, suggesting a very ancient common heritage.

But researchers now think their ancestors may have separately made the leap from simple chemistry to independent, free-living organisms.

In other words, evolution may have started the journey towards cellular life twice if not more!

Let’s zoom back in time a bit and find that the early Earth was a very different place to the planet we know today.

Around volcanic areas and deep-sea hydrothermal vents, minerals and natural chemical reactions provided some of the ingredients needed to build increasingly complex systems.

Researchers suggest that these early systems may have gradually become more sophisticated — eventually developing into the enzymes and machinery that allowed true living cells to survive independently.

And remarkably, bacteria and archaea appear to have evolved some of the same essential biological functions independently of each other!

We normally imagine the origin of life as a single extraordinary event: Chemistry gave rise to first life which evolved into everything alive today.

But perhaps it wasn't that simple.

Its possible that early Earth produced multiple attempts at life, with most disappearing without leaving descendants.

If this is true, the emergence of life is not a unique, one-off event.
It could be something that happens again and again when the conditions are right.

And that leaves us with an extraordinary question:

If life may have emerged more than once on Earth... how often might it have happened elsewhere in the Universe?

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Nature’s Living Art!This is the flank of the Eyed or Ocellated Lizard, and you can see why! Also known as the Jewelled L...
22/09/2026

Nature’s Living Art!

This is the flank of the Eyed or Ocellated Lizard, and you can see why!

Also known as the Jewelled Lizard, these guys have exquisitely good dorsal camouflage of yellow, green and black retuculations and spots, allowing them to be invisible amongst the dry grasses and plants in their home habitat in southern France and Spain.

And yet on their flanks, they have these bright blue spots!

Why they have them no one really knows, but clearly they must work for the lizards to have evolved and retained them.

So what do you think, why does the Eyed Lizard have his blue spots? Display to other eyed lizards? To show off to the girls? To scare away would-be predators?

I’d love to know your thoughts.

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Peeeeeepoh!! The exquisite Emerald Tree Skink peering knowingfully through an air hole in a tub in which he was temporar...
17/09/2026

Peeeeeepoh!! The exquisite Emerald Tree Skink peering knowingfully through an air hole in a tub in which he was temporarily contained.

Such beautiful arboreal lizards, they are so very graceful as they scurry on the tree trunks in the Indonesian rainforests.

It isn’t just us who enjoy a beautiful sunset, magical moments everywhere
15/09/2026

It isn’t just us who enjoy a beautiful sunset, magical moments everywhere

Hey all, I got over 500 reactions on my posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support! Only together can we encourag...
30/08/2026

Hey all,

I got over 500 reactions on my posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support!

Only together can we encourage and inspire more people to appreciate the wild world and how much pleasure we can all gain from it.

Thank you

Tiny hatchling Grass Snake found on a river bank. What they lack in size they make up for in stink!!As a deterrent again...
27/08/2026

Tiny hatchling Grass Snake found on a river bank.

What they lack in size they make up for in stink!!

As a deterrent against predators they empty their a**l glands all over you, and boy does it work!

Off you go little fella

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Britain is now an intensely human-dominated landscape, and combined with climate change means that simply recreating his...
27/08/2026

Britain is now an intensely human-dominated landscape, and combined with climate change means that simply recreating historic british ecosystems may no longer be realistic.

So here’s a thought, and yes it will be controversial. I don't necessarily agree with it, Im just being objective and seeing all the pieces in play.

Instead of trying to rewild to a long lost past, should we instead just look at the UK landscape as a blank canvas and design new, self-sustaining ecosystems for the Britain of the future?

The past is the past, and we are now living in the Anthropocene after all, a period in which humans are the fastest change makers the Earth has ever seen, and so why not just take what we’ve done on the chin, and start again?

Rather than ask “What species used to live here?” We could ask “What ecological functions are missing — and what worldly species could safely perform them better now we’ve changed everything?”

We could select the species for the ecological functions they perform — grazing, browsing, creating wetlands, opening woodland, dispersing seeds, controlling populations, pollinating and recycling nutrients.

Native species and extinct British species would of course come first, followed by close relatives and, where scientifically justified, carefully selected species from elsewhere in the world that are already adapted to similar climates.

The aim wouldn't be a replica of the past, but a resilient, biodiverse ecosystem designed for Britain's human dominated future.

We could even act as an environmental ark, offering sanctuary to adapted species from elsewhere which may be declining in their existing range?

The most radical possibility is that Britain could become a living experiment in designing ecosystems for the future, rather than recreating ecosystems from the past for nostalgias sake.
Why not use our existing decimated biodiversity as a bench mark for learning and future directions.

By “owning” what we have done here in the past, we could create a remarkable flagship for future adaptable ecosystems in a changing world.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and conversation about this.

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I’ve said this for a long time, and posted various videos about it, but to allow nature to return we humans don’t have t...
26/08/2026

I’ve said this for a long time, and posted various videos about it, but to allow nature to return we humans don’t have to intervene, manage and introduce.

All we need to do is stop being involved and thinking we know best!!

Recent research led by Professor Carl Sayer at University College London has found that abandoned farmland can recover naturally and develop into a diverse wildflower meadow in little more than a decade, raising questions about conventional rewilding methods.

The discovery suggests that simply giving nature time to recover could be a powerful and inexpensive tool for restoring biodiversity.

Carl Sayer, Professor of Limnology and Freshwater Ecology, said, "Our study shows that resisting seeding and allowing nature to lead may be worth trying a lot more in wildflower meadow restoration. Natural plant recovery better safeguards genetic diversity than seeding and ensures that local species thrive, making meadows less generic”.

As things stand the UK needs nature recovery fast, at large scale.

In the push to achieve this goal this study poses the question: should we be employing patience over seed packet more often?

What do you think? Love to hear from you.

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An amazing sight, clearly a fossil of some kind, but what exactly? Or maybe it isn’t a fossil at all? Very much left by ...
25/08/2026

An amazing sight, clearly a fossil of some kind, but what exactly?

Or maybe it isn’t a fossil at all?

Very much left by a segmented, spreading organism of some kind, but what?!

I’d love to hear from any amateurs or experts out there with your thoughts.

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23/08/2026

Yes that classic meme is back, this time with a tiny little bunny!

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