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

I met Molly Hansen, the community’s unofficial historian and naturalist, in her low-ceilinged office near the village center.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 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

Roughly three centuries ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to catalog and name every living organism he could find.

From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025

The belemnite, it turned out, had been discovered four years earlier by an amateur naturalist named Chaning Pearce, and the discovery had been fully reported at a meeting of the Geological Society.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson