The Wallace Line marks a sharp biological divide between Asian and Australasian species, despite islands being just miles apart. Alfred Russel Wallace identified the boundary in 1859 after observing ...

In the 19th century, Alfred Russel Wallace (famous for coming up with his own theory of evolution by natural selection, independent of Charles Darwin) was wandering through the Malay Archipelago with ...

The animal kingdoms of Asia and Australia are worlds apart, thanks to an invisible line that runs right between the two neighboring continents. Most wildlife never cross this imaginary boundary, not ...

Sometimes the most powerful lines are the ones we can’t see. Imagine standing on a tiny island in Southeast Asia. The sun is setting, casting golden light over the forest. You spot a cockatoo, native ...

While bullets and cannonballs were flying back and forth across the Mason Dixon line in 1862, Alfred Russel Wallace was wrapping up eight years of adventure studying and collecting biological ...

Understanding history helps us make sense of the present and even make predictions for the future. It’s not just historians who study history, but scientists as well. As climate change shifts the ...