An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, ...

In the 1950s, Bernard Kettlewell tested the idea experimentally by marking several hundred peppered moths (typicals as well as melanics) and releasing them onto tree trunks in a polluted woodland near ...

Camera traps in a forest have caught video of two all-black wolves. Now scientists are investigating where they might have ...

In this activity, your class will use images of historic peppered moth specimens from the Museum's collection to understand variation in a population. They will then play the lucky landing game to ...

Meanwhile, traits not conducive to survival gradually fall away. The original peppered moth (above) and the dark peppered moth (below). Credit: Gail Hampshire/Wikimedia Commons A famous example of ...

In the peppered moth population of Great Britain there is variation in the colour of the moth’s bodies. Some moths have a light body; some have a dark, or melanic body. Body colour is an ...