David Attenborough News

SYDNEY: The animal world is full of strange diets, peculiar social structures and, of course, weird mating behaviours .

From Michael Faraday to David Attenborough plus adorable lemur a ' many eminent figures have delivered Christmas science lectures at the UK's Royal Institution.

The overall winner of the Doodle 4 Google competition - Sophie Redford, aged 15, with her design 'Planet Earth' 'Super-Gran', by Ellen Blair, aged five 'Everyday heroes', by Harrison Marley, aged 11 'Remembrance', by Sarah Hendry, aged 13 'Anyone can be a hero', by Rachel Betts, aged 15 The search engine invited schoolchildren aged between 5 and 16 ...

The BBC risks treating religion like a "rare species" to be studied by David Attenborough, according to the Church of England.

Charles Moore reviews Horizon and finds David Attenborough's message about population short-sighted. David Attenborough's portrayal of population growth was one-sided Photo: AFP When Sir David Attenborough was born, there were roughly two billion people on the planet.

This video is called Macaroni penguin facts - David Attenborough. From British daily The Morning Star : Penguin mapping plan to aid climate scientists Monday 14 December 2009 Genetic "featherprints" are being used to map the movements of penguins to see how they are affected by global warming, scientists have said.

The sad decline of David Attenborough : How can someone who once commissioned The Ascent of Man now churn out such human-hating parables? [F]ar from opening our eyes to a major new problem, Attenborough merely parrots the anti-human spirit of our times.

Why Darwin's theory is more important now than ever. David Attenborough may not be a household name in America, but he's certainly a well-known figure in Great Britain.

It's getting a little tedious, isn't it, this fawning reverence for every show that bears the name of David Attenborough.

OH, the joy of our first year of marriage! I'd love to say that initial flush of romance is still in bloom and we continue to coyly side-step one another in a coquettish love-birdesque mating ritual usually only witnessed by David Attenborough.

SIR DAVID Attenborough is in the Flinders Ranges with the South Australian Museum for a film he always wanted to make about "the first animals". Yesterday he said he was "very glad to be going back" after more than 30 years to a site that briefly appeared in his 13-part series, Life on Earth .

The lyre bird, not only mimics the calls of other birds, buy also man made noises such as cameras, saws and chainsaws, in an attempt to impress potential mates.

Sigourney Weaver, I'm really happy for you and I'ma let you finish but David Attenborough was one of the greatest Planet Earth narrators of all time.

ONE of the marvellous things about this 18th-century legal drama, which comes to an end tonight, is that it's been able to tackle the sort of cases your typical modern courtroom series couldn't really touch.

Television's greatest naturalist produces an enthralling collection of essays. REVIEW Some people attain such heights of achievement they transcend the areas in which they made their name to become icons.

Book information Published by: Allen Lane/Little, Brown Price: A 20/$27.99 THOUGH it may seem gratuitous to publish a collection of essays that have already appeared in magazines or journals, in Malcolm Gladwell 's case it is justified because his writing and storytelling abilities are so good.

It may not have the potential to re-order the world's economic system and tackle climate change like the UN climate talks currently under way in Barcelona, but I was very excited by the news that the soundtrack to Sir David Attenborough's natural history series Life on Earth was released this week .

Life On Earth music re-published: 'You might not know me, my name is David Attenborough' Jonny Trunk of Trunkrecords tells Jon Dennis how and why he is republishing the music of TV servies Life On Earth Latest reviews LSO/JA rvi Barbican, London Kristjan JA rvi shepherded MacMillan's trumpet concert effectively, but his theatrical mannerisms in the ...

SATURDAY night. Tired, sluggish, slumped on the couch. Can't work out how the hell my TV's ended up tuned to STV.

The first commercial release of the avant-garde soundtrack to the 1979 David Attenborough nature blockbuster Life On Earth shows how pivotal it was to that programme's era-defining impact The red-eyed Panamanian tree frog on the cover of the Life On Earth soundtrack British composer Edward Williams's orchestral piece The Sex Life of the Fern is ...