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When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the Industrial Revolution an…
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Country diary: A tiny orchid with mighty powers of deception | Oliver Southall ⊕
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Wolstonbury Hill, West Sussex: The fly orchid looks like no fly I’ve ever seen – its target insect is a wasp. Even more strange is that neither I (nor Charles Darwin) have ever seen one being pollina…
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The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark? ⊕⊕
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The species is abundant within the protected archipelago but when they migrate outside the marine reserve to give birth they run the gauntlet of industrial fishing
The unmistakable fluted T-shape of a…
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World's oldest known tortoise dies aged 193: Jonathan - who met the late Queen when she was a princess - 'passes away peacefully' ○
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When the reptile was born, Queen Victoria had yet to take the British throne, Charles Darwin had not visited the Galapagos, and Germany was a chaotic collection of 39 sovereign states.
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered ⊕⊕
University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago
Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin and qua…
8 months ago
Galápagos had no native amphibians. Then it was invaded by hundreds of thousands of frogs ⊖
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Scientists are only beginning to grasp the scale of the issue and understand what impact the tree frogs may have on the islands’ rare wildlife
On the way to her office at the Charles Darwin research s…
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Manchester City v Manchester United: Premier League – live ○
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‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants ○
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Newly appointed expedition botanist Matthew Jeffery feels ‘daunted’ but inspired by his unique globetrotting role collecting wild species
It was described as “the best job in the natural world”: an ex…
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‘What should be taught in schools?’: the infamous ‘Scopes monkey trial’ turns 100 ○
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In 1925, a Tennessee battle over teaching evolution in schools gripped the US and, as festivities commemorate the chaos, the case remains grimly relevant
Her great-grandfather was a doctor called to a…
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We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then? ○
AI may soon be able decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication – but what nature has to say may not be a surprise
Charles Darwin suggested that humans learned to speak by mimicking birdsong…