This fascinating divide is called Wallace’s Line. It’s named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who noticed the sharp ...

Wallace and others conducted eight years of fieldwork to carefully plot the line across many kilometres, in the process laying the foundations of modern biogeography: the study of how species are ...

Wallace's giant bee is also threatened by deforestation and habitat loss. The report of the discovery comes shortly after the publication of a worldwide study showing that insect species are in ...

But Wallace was onto it. The constant discovery of new species like a biological eruption, altered his perceptions of humanity and its place in the universe. In 1854 he had already penned what ...

Researchers have discovered that a neglected moth was originally collected almost 170 years ago by Alfred Russel Wallace, and have now used it to help describe a further 11 new species. The story ...

It was first proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, in the 19th century after he observed a sharp division in species distribution while travelling through the Malay Archipelago.