So Ficetola and his colleague, Stefano Mammola, started working on a comprehensive survey of the animal and nature icons on Emojipedia, the global library of emojis widely recognized internationally.

And on some level, painter David Driskell’s show at the Phillips Collection, “Icons of Nature and History,” does tell a story with scholarly significance. Many art movements and influences ...

They are one of nature’s largest raptors ... the ultimate bird’s eye view into the private life of an American icon.

I doubt that more than a handful of Nature readers have ever seen a colour photograph or a film of Einstein, and even fewer know what his voice sounded like. Yet his face has become an icon for ...

Yet, from Connecticut to Arizona, there is one dinosaur that is constantly presented as an icon of dinosaurs circa 190 million years ago. This is Dilophosaurus–the 20-foot-long, double-crested ...