‘Virgin birth’ might be more common in animals than we thought.
Readers will remember RIXFORD KNIGHT for other findings about barnyard animals. He is a farmer in Jamaica, Vermont.
Despite much chin-stroking.
In its contest to find the best ethical case for eating meat, The New York Times assembled a high-profile list of judges, but they're all white men. Is consuming animals a feminist issue?
The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.
Bird flu has spread so widely that it was always going to make someone seriously sick.
It begins with the melting of a snowball earth, and the rise of algae.
Plastics and metals have made it much easier for invasive species to raft across oceans.
A poem for Sunday
Thiamine, a nutrient no organism can live without, is mysteriously lacking in some marine ecosystems.