Every once in a while you stumble on a new natural history book that seems destined to be a classic. Is that a bold...

Darwin Day is February 12th, and for an early celebration I thought I’d take a look at a book that rethinks the way Darwin,...

They call it a shell pit because of the vast array of fossilized mollusks who once lived and died there, then became a resource...

We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. I speak...

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an...

Birding in Israel? Report your sightings to help build an eBird-like database of the country’s avifauna. New studies find that: when birds migrate from...

I’ve been down with an odd illness for a few weeks, and then I flew to Mexico and back (boy, are my arms tired!)...

Many, many things happened in the area of bird science this year, so this review can not be comprehensive. But I’ve compiled a sampling...