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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· 5 months agoEverything in this photo, from the wolf to the fallen tree it's jumping over, can be classified...
'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...
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...
Famous birthdays for May 23: Joan Collins, Ryan Coogler
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJoan Collins arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the...
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...
'A work of art': Palms, the princes of the plant kingdom, have fascinated for centuries
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTalk about shock and awe: Stories abound that describe northern botanists’ first encounters with...
Column: Owen-Putnam State Forest logging endangers plants, animals and our planet
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMy first visit to the Jordan Creek area of the Owen-Putnam State Forest was a wondrous morning. The...
Plant Lovers' Almanac: Of hardy hibiscus and hordes of hued hydrangeas
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI split time this past week between the trees and buildings of Central Park, the droughty piles of...
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...