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Fossil jellyfish are exceptionally rare, particularly where they are preserved in mass stranding event settings and it is not hard to imagine why. Who would ever expect such soft-bodied organisms to leave identifiable traces of their existence in the fossil record? Stranded jellyfish on the tidal flats of the Gwendraeth estuary at Carmarthen Bay, Wales (July 2016) Two of our titles consider these remarkable fossils and the following accounts are taken (in slightly abbreviated form, including references removed for brevity) from those books (click the covers to go to the product page to find out more information about the title...

Love them or loathe them, spiders seem to be all over the place, whether it be sitting on a flower head, hanging in the middle of a beautifully geometric orb web or scuttling across your floor. But ... have you ever stopped to wonder how many different types there are? Even in the UK most people can probably only recognize a handful of different types. For example, the common house spider, the daddy-long-legs spider, the common garden spider, the zebra jumping spider (seen on walls on sunny days), and possibly a few others. Author of the blog with a giant...

The following prelude to this blog post is taken from telesurtv.net "The publishing industry’s focus on profits amounts to a censoring of a diversity of viewpoints and experienceBooks are lives compressed, humanity summarised into screaming or striking stories. One would think the book world would be a safe haven from inequality, but instead the traditional publishing industry – the big corporate publishers - is perpetuating prejudice and limiting ideas by elevating certain authors, characters, and thoughts above all others, with significant social consequences.The big publishers are big businesses with monopolies over a product, as much as other industries. They are...