150-year-old Darwin mystery solved by a carnivorous alpine flower
Saxifraga candelabrum, an alpine flowering plant from China, has been confirmed as carnivorous because it attracts, traps, digests,…
Why spiders deserve our respect, not fear or disgust
I had not thought much about spiders until I read Maria Tatar’s Arachnomania; now I can think of…
Swedish lakes help solve Darwin’s 160-year puzzle about invasive species
Darwin’s old puzzle starts with a simple question: when a species enters a new habitat, does it do…
Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution
Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems…