Mark Catesby's work documents the plants and animals he saw while journeying in North America and the Caribbean ...

On exhibit. Focus on Nature XII: Natural History Illustration Exhibition. Where: State Museum, 222 Madison Ave., Albany. When: Through Dec. 31; hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5 ...

Art has long been incredibly important to the development of science, as shown in the Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library exhibition now at the ...

Learn about Violet Dandridge, Aime Motter Awl, Carolyn Bartlett Gast, and Marilyn Schotte: four women from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology who ...

Take a look at original hand-coloured engravings by Dutch painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté and other masters of 18th- and 19th-century natural history illustration on an Omotesando back street.

Botanical illustrations offer mesmerizingly detailed and vividly colored glimpses of the natural world. Now, reports Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic, more than 150,000 such artworks are freely ...

Australian Geographic has been supporting the $1000-prize to up-and-coming talented University of Newcastle students since 2009. “Studying the Natural History Illustration Degree at University of ...

SANTA CRUZ >> In biology, the old axiom “form follows function” means that an organism’s structure is formed in direct correlation to its purpose. Think Darwin’s f… ...

Take a look at hand-coloured engravings featuring 19th-century camellia flowers and depictions of rare monkeys from Johann Schreber's 1775 series 'Fantastic Bea ...