This coincides with the time when our ancestors began to spend time on the ground, where they would have come across rotting, fallen fruit.

They gorge on the juice in fallen fruit, and try to get to jam and marmalade.

Birds also love apples: when the fallen fruit ferments, fieldfares and redwings eat it straight off the ground.

And make sure to clear away any fallen fruit.

This disease overwinters on fallen fruit, any fruit left on the tree, or as spores on the fruiting spurs of branches.

And here they were cutting this fallen giant down to size on what was by far the biggest night in their short history.

Manager of a fallen giant, spy on rival clubs.

This huge fallen giant has been preserved in the park to allow visitors to walk along its trunk.

Many fallen giants fell on hard times during the later part of the 1980s.

The fondest farewell, though, will be for the sport's fallen hero.

A fallen hero since he started driving into fire hydrants, he has scarcely set his sport alight since he won here a year ago.

Plaques and posters dedicated to the fallen hero still hang in restaurants and other businesses.

The fallen hero looked shattered when he appeared for the final day of his bail hearing after an eighth night in a police cell.

I don't want him to become a common-or-garden tarnished celebrity, yet another car-crash cliché of a fallen hero, his private life scavenged.

They drop down, often rather conspicuously, to their nest under a fallen log, or even in a hollow in the leaf-mould.

Other sites chosen can be in a hollow tree, in a tree stump or fallen log, or in a gap under a rock.

They make a lined nest on the ground often on top of a rocky stack, fallen log or other obstructing object which can block the contents from the elements.

The forest contains fallen logs, as well as about 90 in-situ-(standing) tree trunks, and leaflets or branch fossils.

The soft, spongy orange fruit bodies grow spread out on the surface of fallen logs.

Fallen snow preserves dust, ash, bubbles of atmospheric gas and even radioactive elements; a richer source of climatic information than tree rings or layers of sediment.

If you were up late at night, you might see massive trucks sprinkling it behind them as they shoveled freshly fallen snow.

Scoop some freshly fallen snow into a big, chilled bowl.

They are the combination of two different layers of snow, the first being an existing sheet that has crusted over and the second a fresh layer of fallen snow.

Try to leave the top of the soil fluffy and open, the texture of newly fallen snow, to take the seed or turf.

Online tributes referred to him as a 'fallen soldier' but a family friend said he was 'never in any gang'.

Mob pals have hailed him as a 'fallen soldier'.

Within these walls, sculptures depict a fallen soldier, comrades and family.

The helmet and identification tags signify the fallen soldier.

Some show warriors fighting over a fallen soldier, others show battles.

Hundreds of fans waited for hours to welcome their fallen star.

The 'fallen star' was jailed for breaching a probation order (which she got for a drink-driving offence).

One fallen star began his international rehabilitation yesterday but another hurtled farther towards oblivion.

The offence was kept under wraps and the fallen star began his exile from the game.

When even a fallen star says something like that, he gets us on his side and that allows him to say things unchallenged.

Later in the week, we spot something really special: two small leopard cubs playing on a fallen tree.

The winds that brought down the wires have even blocked our access road with a fallen tree - how will my carer get to me?

One snap shows a uniformed officer giving a thumbs-up next to a vehicle, which seems to have hit a fallen tree.

First came impassable roads and a fallen tree that knocked out the power for 48 hours.

Jurors were shown glass flasks, syringes, thermometers and chemicals found in a suitcase by a fallen tree.