naturalist

Gods of the Morning, Hedonic Eating, A Beautiful Question, and Genomic Messages

Comparing the proteins of a 300-year-old pickled elephant fetus with modern sequence data challenges Carl Linnaeus’s decision to assign it as the Asian elephant type specimen.

Biology students discover a new species of beetle in the giant city of Manila.

American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.

In Chapter 4, “Darwin’s Barnacles, Agassiz’s Jellyfish,” author Christoph Irmscher describes his subject’s obsession with marine organisms.

The role of field biologists is changing as conservation biology evolves and ecological challenges mount.