At any rate, the Celsius scale, based as it is on the number “100”, made chemistry much simpler for people who were less than ...

Before Madagascar, lemurs lived under the radar. Today, King Julien is a household name and some of us think about his silly ...

To me, the painted bunting is one of the most beautiful songbirds in the United States. I’ve always felt that way, probably ...

By transforming documents of colonial classification into fantastical paintings, the racist imagery of Carl Linnaeus is ...

One animal that I have never been asked to get rid of is hummingbirds. My guess is that hummingbirds must be good guests and don’t outstay their welcome.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million Indigenous people around the world directly depend on tropical forests for survival, ...

Most people would call it a "field mouse," but a scientist would ask, "Was it Peromyscus maniculatus? Or Peromyscus leucopus?" ...

May 23 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include: -- Scientist Carl Linnaeus in 1707 -- U.S. Army Gen./Sen. Ambrose Burnside in 1824 -- Musician/actor Scatman ...

The book traces the parallel 18th-century scientific journeys of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon, who independently worked to classify and understand the natural world—efforts that still ...

It centres on the differing arguments of two men from the 18th century: Swedish doctor and biologist Carl Linnaeus, who espoused the "tidy" theory; and French naturalist Georges Louis de Buffon ...