Meet, if you would, Miss Henrietta Atkins, teacher of evolutionary science to generations of local schoolchildren in Hammondsport, N.Y., perhaps the most enduring character Andrea Barrett has ever ...

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently published “The Butterflies of California,” an online book that contains a ...

Among many excellent natural-history books released this year is the oversize “Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics” (W.W. Norton) by award-winning authors ...

A new examination of a pre-industrial Scottish natural history book gives a new understanding of post-industrial environmental change in the country. In a new paper published in the Royal Society ...

Baskin's "A Little Book of Natural History" was published in 1951, the first Gehenna Press book after Baskin's initial effort in 1942, "On a Pyre of Withering Roses." Fifty copies of the book were ...

Historians rely on documents to piece together the past. Geoarcheologists go deeper – literally. Deep under Lake Matoaka lie stories that researchers are only now unearthing, layer by layer, tracking ...

It’s one of humanity’s oldest questions – the hunter, the herder and the harried modern pet owner have all at some point gazed at an animal and (with rather diverse intentions) mused “I wonder what he ...

Peter Kuper’s book-length comic, Insectopolis: A Natural History, begins with an entomologist and her brother walking to the New York Public Library to see an exhibition on insects entitled ...

It is easy to love Griffith Park, with its stunning views and iconic observatory. Same goes for Joshua Tree National Park, drawing millions each year with its transcendent desert views and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The documentary will also feature the Natural History Museum’s exhibition, titled Fantastic Beasts ...

Patrik Svensson mixed natural history with memoir for his debut, which has become a surprise best seller and award winner in his native Sweden. By Lisa Abend MALMO, Sweden — In the 1980s, American ...