BBC Countryfile Magazine

Ellie Harrison

I’m far from the first person to suggest that if you scale up invertebrates to human size with their bizarre forms and behaviours for all to see, they would garner a lot more respect and admiration. It’s only knight’smove-thinking and a pleat in time to imagine them in prehistory, once again animals of awe.

Long before the dinosaurs walked

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