naturalist

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A three-part documentary, executive produced by Ken Burns and with Jeff Goldblum voicing its subject, revisits the life and career of the American naturalist and writer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had the wrong idea about the way evolution works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

This is a delicate, confidently imagined fiction made with the eyes of a naturalist, the heart of a believer in family, and a sensibility with room for both the Pythonesque and the Lynchian.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Floyd might also be staying hydrated with rain puddles, Janet Kessler, a self-taught naturalist who has been documenting coyote behaviour in San Francisco for about 20 years, told the BBC's US media partner CBS.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

In my other hours, I have taken up again the pen of the naturalist; it being my purpose to supply an entry lacking in the System of the great Linnæus.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson