Although the peppered moth has been the poster child of Darwinian evolution since the late 19 th century, over the past decade there’s been a public debate questioning the validity of this textbook ...

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 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 ...

And because they cannot digest a lot of the plant matter, they defecate more than 100 times per day. Peppered moths can be white with black speckles, primarily black, or intermediate between the two.

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

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 ...

The most famous case of human-driven evolution was the peppered moth in the United Kingdom. It changed color as a reaction to industrial pollution in the 1800s. The moth's response has sparked an ...