The Joppa Whale
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Sperm whale carcass on tow.
Location: Joppa, Portobello Beach, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Stress physiology of South African game animals
- Sharing of reproduction and care of young in banded mongooses
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- Trix - Tyrannosaurus rex for real
- Full Flow: Explorations of the Flow Country
- Titan arum - at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Wee Reekie - Amorphophallus konjac
- Amorphophallus titanum - the corpse flower
- Scotland's Squirrels
- Isle of Arran
- Abstracts with Trees
- Ardnamurchan I: Portrait of the region
- Ardnamurchan II: Landscape of Contrast
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- Winter Wonderland
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- Camera Trap: South Africa
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- Madagascar Wildlife
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- Emporia of Weird & Wonderful: the Nature of Museum
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- Richard Thompson - Ship To Shore Tour 2024
- Jethro Tull - The Seven Decades Tour 2024
- Rick Wakeman The Return Of The Caped Crusader 2024
- Spock's Beard - UK Tour 2024
- Focus - The Hocus Pocus Tour 2023
- Peter Gabriel - i/o - Glasgow 2023
- Richard Thompson - Live 2023
- Martin Barre - Aqualung 50th Anniversary 2023
- Steve Hackett - Foxtrot At Fifty Tour 2022
- Jakko Jakszyk - The Road To Ballina - 2022
- Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy 2022
- Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble - 2022
- Rick Wakeman - Xmas Tour - Edinburgh 2021
- Genesis - The Last Domino? - Newcastle 2021
- Steve Hackett - Seconds Out + - Dundee 2021
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- Ancient giant flying reptiles cared for their young
- A new plesiosaur, its ecological and evolutionary context, and the Loch Ness Monster
- The giant pterosaur that pterrorised skies over Skye
- RAY HARRYHAUSEN: TITAN OF CINEMA - Inspiration to JURASSIC WORLD
- RAY HARRYHAUSEN: TITAN OF CINEMA - Tribute to an Exhibition
- Using DNA to take on major players in illegal elephant ivory trade
- Reimagining Baby Tyrannosaurs
- Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema
- Death to Nanotyrannus! Long Live Tyrannosaurs!
- Ray Harryhausen Tribute Blog
- Filling Romer’s Gap: A Tribute to Professor Jenny Clack
- Tyrannosaurs: from T. rex to Nanotyrannus, all features great and small
- The Grey Squirrel conundrum: conservation v’s ethics
- Dinosaur egg discovery reveals social lives of dinosaurs
- Tyrannosaurus rex and the dinosaur teeth of Skye: Windows into the lives of dead dinos
- New Reekie 3 and the Power of Plants
- Wee Reekie - Smaller but Smellier...
- Ecology: Life on the Edge
- Why Fossils Matter
- The Return of the Giant Corpse Flower…
- The Future of Scotland’s Landscape: Geology and Biodiversity
- A Gathering of the Extraordinary: Scottish Nature Photography Festival 2017
- Roads Less Travelled – Sutherland in Winter
- Monkey Business: All Primates Great and Small
- Crossing Croatia: National Parks, Castles and bear shit
- India: Memories of Kerala
- Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart (with snow...)
- Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough
- By the seaside on the Algarve
- Civil War, Sex, and Mass Eviction....
- A New (Moody) Dawn
- Wet and Windy in Wester Ross
- The Death of a Rhino
- When the Wind Blows: Wild Shetland
- Conservation Communication: Getting the Message Across
- Animal Welfare: Aiming for a Better Future
- Amorphophallus titanum: a Natural Wonder
- India: the Colours of Kerala
- Exploring Uncharted Terrain: Looking Back to Rhino and South Africa
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- Stress physiology of South African game animals
- Sharing of reproduction and care of young in banded mongooses
- Effects of anthropogenic waste disposal on banded mongoose demographics
- Group dynamics in chimpanzees
- Costs and benefits of communal breeding in grey mouse lemurs
- Dynamics of group-living in social spiders
- Scientific Publications
- The Ray Harryhausen Centenary Photo Quiz
- Scotland Galleries
- Rhino!
- Republika Hrvatska: Croatia
- Colours of Kerala (India)
- Camera Trap: South Africa
- South Africa Wildlife
- South Africa Landscape
- Madagascar Wildlife
- Animalia
- Abstracts
- The North of England
- Emporia of Weird & Wonderful: the Nature of Museum
- Year in Pictures
- The Sci-Fi Zone
- Live Music - Gigs - Prog
- Ancient giant flying reptiles cared for their young
- A new plesiosaur, its ecological and evolutionary context, and the Loch Ness Monster
- The giant pterosaur that pterrorised skies over Skye
- RAY HARRYHAUSEN: TITAN OF CINEMA - Inspiration to JURASSIC WORLD
- RAY HARRYHAUSEN: TITAN OF CINEMA - Tribute to an Exhibition
- Using DNA to take on major players in illegal elephant ivory trade
- Reimagining Baby Tyrannosaurs
- Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema
- Death to Nanotyrannus! Long Live Tyrannosaurs!
- Ray Harryhausen Tribute Blog
- Filling Romer’s Gap: A Tribute to Professor Jenny Clack
- Tyrannosaurs: from T. rex to Nanotyrannus, all features great and small
- The Grey Squirrel conundrum: conservation v’s ethics
- Dinosaur egg discovery reveals social lives of dinosaurs
- Tyrannosaurus rex and the dinosaur teeth of Skye: Windows into the lives of dead dinos
- New Reekie 3 and the Power of Plants
- Wee Reekie - Smaller but Smellier...
- Ecology: Life on the Edge
- Why Fossils Matter
- The Return of the Giant Corpse Flower…
- The Future of Scotland’s Landscape: Geology and Biodiversity
- A Gathering of the Extraordinary: Scottish Nature Photography Festival 2017
- Roads Less Travelled – Sutherland in Winter
- Monkey Business: All Primates Great and Small
- Crossing Croatia: National Parks, Castles and bear shit
- India: Memories of Kerala
- Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart (with snow...)
- Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough
- By the seaside on the Algarve
- Civil War, Sex, and Mass Eviction....
- A New (Moody) Dawn
- Wet and Windy in Wester Ross
- The Death of a Rhino
- When the Wind Blows: Wild Shetland
- Conservation Communication: Getting the Message Across
- Animal Welfare: Aiming for a Better Future
- Amorphophallus titanum: a Natural Wonder
- India: the Colours of Kerala
- Exploring Uncharted Terrain: Looking Back to Rhino and South Africa
- Ray Harryhausen: Titan Of Cinema Photo Gallery
- Ray Harryhausen: Titan Of Cinema - Teaser
- Tyrannosaurs: The Exhibition
- Tyrannosaurs: teaser
- Trix - Tyrannosaurus rex for real
- Full Flow: Explorations of the Flow Country
- Titan arum - at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Wee Reekie - Amorphophallus konjac
- Amorphophallus titanum - the corpse flower
- Scotland's Squirrels
- Isle of Arran
- Abstracts with Trees
- Ardnamurchan I: Portrait of the region
- Ardnamurchan II: Landscape of Contrast
- Scottish Wildlife
- Scottish Landscapes
- Scotland Travel
- Scottish Castles
- Scotland in Monochrome
- Winter Wonderland
- The Joppa Whale
- Richard Thompson - Ship To Shore Tour 2024
- Jethro Tull - The Seven Decades Tour 2024
- Rick Wakeman The Return Of The Caped Crusader 2024
- Spock's Beard - UK Tour 2024
- Focus - The Hocus Pocus Tour 2023
- Peter Gabriel - i/o - Glasgow 2023
- Richard Thompson - Live 2023
- Martin Barre - Aqualung 50th Anniversary 2023
- Steve Hackett - Foxtrot At Fifty Tour 2022
- Jakko Jakszyk - The Road To Ballina - 2022
- Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy 2022
- Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble - 2022
- Rick Wakeman - Xmas Tour - Edinburgh 2021
- Genesis - The Last Domino? - Newcastle 2021
- Steve Hackett - Seconds Out + - Dundee 2021
- Steve Hackett - Seconds Out + - Glasgow 2021
- Steve Hackett - Seconds Out + - Edinburgh 2021