Say what? Scientists find gene that may be crucial in why we have language and chimps don’t

Gene found that seems key in evolution of speech

A look at the winners of the 2009 Nobel Prizes

With Monday’s prize in economics, all the 2009 Nobel Prizes have been announced. The winners will receive them on Dec. 10 in twin ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo.

British man bushwhacks through Asia to win recognition for evolutionist overshadowed by Darwin

SANTUBONG, Malaysia — As he trudges past chest-high ferns and butterflies the size of saucers, George Beccaloni scours a jungle hilltop overlooking the South China Sea for signs of a long-forgotten Victorian-era scientist.

CSI Ocean: Combining serial killer tracking and shark biology to see how great whites stalk

WASHINGTON — Great white sharks have some things in common with human serial killers, a new study says: They don’t attack at random, but stalk specific victims, lurking out of sight.

Animal rights groups say larger elephant displays invite more captivity, not better conditions

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Seven lumbering elephants — four of them newcomers — are the star attractions in the San Diego Zoo’s biggest, most costly expansion in its 90-plus years.

Henry Shaw’s St. Louis garden, a ‘unique’ global achievement, turns 150, and counting

ST. LOUIS — Young Henry Shaw, only 18, was selling cutlery out of a rented room in St. Louis when a chance, half-day journey out of town on horseback one spring day in 1819 led him to his destiny — the prairie that would become his garden.

New Smithsonian exhibit shows the complex variety, life of ants

WASHINGTON — Running a museum is no picnic, but the Smithsonian is attracting ants anyway.

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