Although Prosanta Chakrabarty grew up in Queens, he always loved nature. The wonder of the world's creatures inspired him to study biology, a field that illuminates which of Earth’s beings are related ...

An ichthyologist from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium received the ultimate honor recently, when a freshwater fish discovered on the African island nation of Madagascar was named ...

He swam the world’s oceans, identified hundreds of new fish species and named 834 of them. By John Schwartz John E. Randall had wandered off again. He had been diving with family and friends in ...

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Sri Lankan scientists have identified a new genus of fresh water fish and named it after the evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins. A University of Sydney taxonomist has built on ...