On a fine gray afternoon in late October, I came across an impressive cone midden beneath a towering red spruce. While it was surely the work of an industrious squirrel — perhaps a family, given the ...

During his famous voyage to the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin noticed that the finches differed markedly from island to island. Each group had uniquely shaped bills that helped them feed on the ...

Years before he decided to study law, Atticus Finch had the name for it. Finch, a first-year student at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, is truly named Atticus Finch, after the lawyer ...

For most of my life as a horticulturist, there has been a longing for a good yellow petunia that would thrive all summer in the South. This year via plant trialing, that dream came true for me with ...

May 9 (UPI) --New research offers the best explanation to date of the origins of Darwin's finches. The diversity of finches on the Galapagos Islands inspired Darwin's theory of natural selection and ...

Darwin's finches are among the most celebrated examples of adaptive radiation in the evolution of modern vertebrates and now a new study, led by scientists from the University of Bristol, has provided ...

AUBURN — For Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, there is one story that captured Gary Finch's many qualities. Finch, the longtime Auburn-area state assemblyman who died on May 5, was interviewed ...