Via Alex at Transcription and Translation, I see that Olympus has announced the winners to its 2009 BioScapes competition. Check them out… here’s my favorite: By Dr. Alexis Lomakin Credit: Dr. Alexis Lomakin – Kursk, Russia Specimen: Xenopus...

This blog post is in recognition of tomorrow’s 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. I’ve linked to a...

It’s pretty rare that biologists find an instance where speciation appears to have occurred right in front of their very eyes, but it appears that Peter and Rosemary Grant have looked closely enough over the course of a few decades to have seen it. As...

A little more than a week ago, BirdLife Cyprus’s field trip officer Stavros Christodoulides was put into contact with a Larnaca-area taxidermist who reportedly had been given three Little Bustards Tetrax tetrax to stuff over the last two years. Why is...

This is an example of big science which could drive discoveries regarding evolution and more for years to come. A consortium of researchers are proposing in the Journal of Heredity to sequence the genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species! This would of...