Botanical illustration is the most popular genre of natural history illustration. Many botanical artists still work within the traditional sphere, illustrating scientific journals and popular ...

Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand. An illustration shows what Duonychus tsogtbaatari might have looked like. Unlike its ...

Illustration: Wikimedia. ... That other worlds were inhabited also seemed an appropriate conclusion to draw from early modern science focused, as it was, on God’s work in nature.

Despite societal constraints, a select group of pioneering women found a path to contribute to science through illustration. Drawing was a decidedly “womanly” pastime in the early 1900s, ...

An Illustration of Modern Science by Richard Marsh Convinced she'll soon be murdered, stage artiste Beauffie Buckingham wants to make her will. Thriller read by Joanna Riding.

In the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a séance and a rave. Case in point: this glorious 1807 illustration from a ...

Reading Anna Escardó’s SCIENCE ILLUSTRATION: Visual Milestones From the 15th Century to Today (Taschen, 436 pp., $80) is like looking over the shoulder of those scientists.

Modern humans and Neanderthals likely shared the plains and forests of Eurasia for 6,000 to 7,000 years. As bands of Homo sapiens spread across the continent, they carried Neanderthal DNA with them.

Your fave illustration of Franklin’s kite experiment is likely riddled with errors Most date from 19th century and were heavily influenced by Joseph Priestley's 1767 account.

Smithsonian botanical illustrator, Alice Tangerini, has spent over 50 years turning plants from the museum’s botany collection into artistic compositions, each of which can take up to two weeks ...

Together they have sought to mix modern science with the ancient wisdom of traditional European medicine (TEM), which advises combining botanical remedies with holistic practices.