snapshot

"It is a single community of a single species of animal from a snapshot in time, and it's a huge sample size. That almost never happens in the fossil record," says Prof Bamforth.

The flashbacks to Ellie’s birthday celebrations with Joel felt like explainers of how the two grew apart as opposed to emotional snapshots that captured the roots of their estrangement.

The 38-year-old white South African often takes snapshots capturing scenes such as a cold Johannesburg morning, the purple Jacaranda trees famously associated with Pretoria or Cape Town's popular beachfronts.

They also included a snapshot of the league table showing Minnesota moving above Inter.

A recent snapshot of the financial decisions of 60 of the 141 institutions in UUK found almost half of those responding had closed courses, or reduced options for students in the last three years.