Shrimp fossil is named for British naturalist Attenborough
To mark Attenborough's 90th birthday, researchers from Yale University and universities in England named in his honor a distant relative of today's shrimp and lobster. The crustacean was identified from a 430-million-year-old imprint in volcanic ash found in what is now the English county of Herefordshire. Read more
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. Read more
Sir David Attenborough's view on Science & Religion - Life on Air
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Sir David Attenborough explains his views on science and religion in this very personal interview with ex-Monty Python, travel guru and self confessed Attenborough fan, Michael Palin.
People and Planet
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Broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough presents the 2011 RSA President's Lecture. The dangers facing the earth's ecosystems are well known and the subject of great concern at all levels. Climate change is high on the list. But there is an underlying and associated cause -- population growth.