If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, you may have noticed how small these land masses appear against the vast Pacific Ocean.

It was how Odysseus sailed the seas, how Columbus reached the Americas, and how Lawrence of Arabia found his way across the vast, featureless deserts of the Middle East. For millennia, travellers used ...

Oscar Wilde famously said 'we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars' - and this is particularly true of dung beetles. The creatures are known to navigate using the light of the ...

It is the world’s largest island, featuring vast expanses of arid scrubland and desert at its heart. But the scorched landscape of Australia posed little barrier to the Aboriginal inhabitants who ...