naturalist

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The men behind the new law included Francis Orpen Morris, a naturalist who was rector of Nunburnholme, and Henry Barnes-Lawrence, the vicar of Bridlington, as historian David Neave explains.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had the wrong idea about the way evolution works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Floyd might also be staying hydrated with rain puddles, Janet Kessler, a self-taught naturalist who has been documenting coyote behaviour in San Francisco for about 20 years, told the BBC's US media partner CBS.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

The noted Roman naturalist and historian was indeed an early expert in fermentation, yet he also wrote about “sal ammoniac” — yes, smelling salts — in his encyclopedic work “Natural History,” published in 79 A.D.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

A curious naturalist traveling from the Galápagos to England—a Darwin in reverse—might have been astonished to find that each region had its own species of cow.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee