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Chernobyl and The Terror docu-dramas expose horror's many faces

19 June 2019

Stories of Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown and the doomed Franklin hunt for a North-West Passage terrify for very different reasons, says Chelsea Whyte in her latest column

This South American potoo bird can camouflage itself as a branch

19 June 2019

This photo shows nature's best camouflage trick as the common potoo bird, snapped in Colombia's Utría National Park, stays still so long it becomes invisible

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Chernobyl and The Terror docu-dramas expose horror's many faces

This South American potoo bird can camouflage itself as a branch

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