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Book Review: Funny Bums, Freaky Beaks… + author Q&A!

A page from the book Funny Bums, Freaky Beaks by Alex Morss and Sean Taylor

REVIEW In Funny Bums, Freaky Beaks: and Other Incredible Creature Features, authors Alex Morss and Sean Taylor have created a fascinating collection of unusual creatures with amazing characteristics, celebrating the diversity of life on earth. From puzzling toes to weird ears, and all the other body parts in between, the book includes fantastic illustrations and … Read more

Sky Cinema release kids’ film EXTINCT

Extinct Sky Cinema and NOW TV TX: Summer 2021 Siblings Op and Ed are flummels - cute, furry, donut-shaped animals who live on an island in the Galapagos in 1835. Ed, desperately wants to fit in with the community while Op constantly creates havoc, with his impulsive behaviour getting the two of them banished. Undeterred, Op leads Ed up the far side of the mountain to the forbidden zone, where they find, and plummet through, a mysterious time portal where they learn, to their horror, that flummels become extinct in 1835. Op and Ed must undertake a tumultuous time-hopping adventure in order to return to their own time and save their species. Extinct stars Rachel Bloom (Trolls, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Adam Devine (Pitch Perfect, Modern Family), Zazie Beetz (Deadpool, Atlanta) and Ken Jeong (The Hangover, Crazy Rich Asians). Director David Silverman (The Simpsons Movie) partners with writers Joel Cohen, John Frink, Rob Lazebnik on Extinct, production of China Lion Entertainment in co-production with Tolerable Entertainment,

Sky Cinema released the movie of the summer this year when EXTINCT hit the screens on 20th August 2021. This fun kids’ film, featuring the voices of Rachel Bloom and Adam DeVine, is a light-hearted adventure story about two adorable donut-shaped animals – called flummels – who discover how evolution has shaped the natural world.

Bird lovers help scientists discover secrets of beak evolution

Scientists and bird lovers across the world have helped researchers  to uncover new secrets about the evolution of bird’s beaks over time in a ground-breaking study. Researchers at the University of Sheffield asked the public to help measure beak shapes from more than 2000 bird species which had been 3D scanned from specimens at the … Read more