YOU wouldn’t think that a book of black and white photographs of animal skeletons could be so beautiful, so dramatic and so evocative of life. But there are no static taxonomic shots of bones here: these are skeletons arranged in dynamic poses, with heads cocked, jaws open and limbs seemingly tensed. After looking at them for a while you no longer see the bones, but the animals they once were – a fox pouncing on a vole, a diving gannet or, as in this photo, a flying lemur preparing to take to the air. The images effortlessly bring home what is drummed into biology students –…
