American photographer Tim Laman won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 for his image Entwined lives. It frames a critically endangered Bornean orangutan abo...
During January, families across the UK perched themselves in places with a view of their garden. Perhaps sipping from mugs of tea as they recorded the winged vi...
Chameleons have amazing tongues. They flick out at high speed to snare unsuspecting insects caught dawdling on branches some distance away, before reeling them ...
Fantastic footage of a spotted skunk (genus: Spilogale) captured on a camera trap in the Saguaro National Park, Arizona, USA. The brilliant handstand and shuff...
The oceans of the world are under serious pressure. An eye-opening new report has documented plummeting populations of marine life across the globe.
The Livi...
Gannets soaring above a Shetland cliff, a dew-covered crane fly, and a mite dwarfed next to the eye of a toad are amongst the winners in this stunning selection...
Fancy getting involved in a citizen science project, helping researchers, and having fun playing a game at the same time? Dazzle Bug could be for you!
The re...
A chimpanzee named Tushi has been caught knocking a drone out of the sky. The drone, buzzing around the chimpanzee enclosure at Royal Burgers' Zoo, was being us...
Ever the opportunists, herring gulls have been known to swoop down on unaware tourists, snatching sandwiches and Cornish pasties from fingertips. As such, gulls...
If rather unceremoniously dumped out of a container high in the canopy of a Peruvian jungle during research, a genus of daredevil arachnids can rapidly recover,...
While he loves pretty much everything in the natural world, Nik really enjoys the quirkier side of nature, and has a soft spot for marine invertebrates in particular. He adores cephalopods and gets misty-eyed at the rapid, mind-blowing colour change and brilliant behaviours of cuttlefish and octopuses.
When near the coast, Nik can often be found sploshing around in rockpools, poking around in seaweed and peering under rocks (carefully!), hoping to find intertidal treasures; a tiny porcelain crab, maybe, or perhaps a rare glimpse of a Bloody Henry sea star or shagrug nudibranch.
For Biosphere, Nik dives into the research and writing, helping Roz to track down the best and most fascinating of the latest studies. He puts together the news in brief pieces for the magazine, and keeps on top of what’s happening in the busy world of social media.
Nik completed his degrees at the University of Bristol and the University of Exeter, and holds an MSc with distinction in Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology.
