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When Charles Darwin first encountered parasitoid wasps, he was horrified. In an 1860 letter to American botanist Asa Gray, he wrote: “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.”

Like Charles Darwin did in 1831, a group of scientists and environmentalists last year set sail from the English port of Plymouth, headed for the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador.

Research that aims to explain why some people experience intense visual imagery could lead to a better understanding of creativity and some mental disorders

Whether by striking workers, poets or Pussy Riot, our feline friends have long been used as a symbol of resistance – radical by nature, they refuse to be tamed

Keystone species has potentially enormous effects on above-ground wildlife and ecosystem functioning

Supermarkets report recommends mandatory code apply to all chains with annual revenues of more than $5bn, which includes Coles, Woolworths and Aldi

Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals

Retracing Darwin’s journey through South America, I had an ominous premonition about environmental crisis

Specimens collected on Voyage of the Beagle have been unearthed at Cambridge University archive