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Animal Classification: A Taxonomy for All Living Things
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEverything in this photo, from the wolf to the fallen tree it's jumping over, can be classified...
‘Every Living Thing’ Review: Before Darwin Came Linnaeus
The Wall Street Journal· 4 weeks agoBOOKSHELF When Karl Marx read Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” he concluded that Darwin...
Fragrant delights: Exploring the beauty and care of gardenias
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe Gardenia genus was named for Scottish physician and naturalist Alexander Garden (1730-1791). In...
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...
Nature Journal: Lichens are a good indicator of air quality
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn a winter walk you will encounter numerous evergreen plants. None is more mysterious or delightful...
Murder haunts N.C. author's mystery 'In a Lonely Backwater,' which invokes UNCW
Star News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNoir comes South in "In a Lonely Backwater," the latest thriller from Reidsville, N.C., writer...
'A work of art': Palms, the princes of the plant kingdom, have fascinated for centuries
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 9 months agoTalk about shock and awe: Stories abound that describe northern botanists’ first encounters with...
This amaryllis family native puts out a showy bloom in spring | Mystery Plant
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe amaryllis family is a large group of herbaceous species, many of them producing large bulbs,...
'An enormous mass of flesh armed with teeth': How orcas gained their 'killer' reputation
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFrom Pliny the Elder to the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, historians and naturalists have found...
Was Cleopatra Black? A New Netflix Series Is Reviving an Old Controversy
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAdele James in Queen Cleopatra. Credit - Courtesy of Netflix The monumental legacy of Cleopatra,...