Irene Wright McClatchy News Nearly two centuries ago on a little archipelago off the Pacific coast of Ecuador, a 26-year-old Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle. The now famous scientist had ...
Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos—delicious Latin American ...
Our research takes place on a South Florida island roughly the size of an American football field – assuming we’re successful in sidestepping the American crocodiles that bask in the surrounding lake.
As Visit Essex says, the two hamlets form one of the county’s oldest fishing villages. It is home to a 1000-year-old church - St Peter's Church - once run by "the King of the Smugglers" William “Hard ...
In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which ... According to the Tennessee State ...
A secretive creature observed by Darwin has long since been thought extinct, until observers recently spotted a specimen.
Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...
Nearly two centuries ago on a little archipelago off the Pacific coast of Ecuador, a 26-year-old Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle. The now famous scientist had spent three years sailing ...
The time will come, though you and I will not be present to witness it, when most everything about our era is forgotten, just as we’ve forgotten most everything about the semi-distant past.