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‘Every Living Thing’ Review: Before Darwin Came Linnaeus
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF When Karl Marx read Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” he concluded that Darwin...
Animal Classification: A Taxonomy for All Living Things
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoEverything in this photo, from the wolf to the fallen tree it's jumping over, can be classified...
Big or small, palms are the aristocrats of the plant kingdom. Check these beauties out
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoTwo botanical luminaries – Carl Linnaeus and David Fairchild – never met, but both were stunned by...
'An enormous mass of flesh armed with teeth': How orcas gained their 'killer' reputation
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFrom Pliny the Elder to the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, historians and naturalists have found...
Famous birthdays for May 23: Joan Collins, Ryan Coogler
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoJoan Collins arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the...
Murder haunts N.C. author's mystery 'In a Lonely Backwater,' which invokes UNCW
Star News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNoir comes South in "In a Lonely Backwater," the latest thriller from Reidsville, N.C., writer...
Sunflower family member has medical uses and more | Mystery Plant
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“'Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom/ From the day that I was born I've waved the...
Column: Owen-Putnam State Forest logging endangers plants, animals and our planet
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMy first visit to the Jordan Creek area of the Owen-Putnam State Forest was a wondrous morning. The...
For gardeners, botanical Latin is a language worth learning
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIf you've been thumbing through a gardening catalog or shopping at a nursery, you've likely noticed...
Fragrant delights: Exploring the beauty and care of gardenias
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Gardenia genus was named for Scottish physician and naturalist Alexander Garden (1730-1791). In...