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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· 3 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...
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...
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...
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...
Returning a 170-year-old preserved lizard to Jamaica is a step toward redressing colonial harms
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoZoologist Elizabeth Morrison receives the Jamaican giant galliwasp from Mike Rutherford, a curator...
Emojis to the rescue? More are needed to address the biodiversity crisis, scientists say
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMore emojis of plants, mollusks, flatworms, fungi and microorganisms could help spark new...
The racist Romeo & Juliet trolling has a shocking cultural history
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWhen I heard that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers had been cast as Juliet opposite Tom Holland’s Romeo in...