To quote a famous fictional lion, the Earth is a beautiful circle of life — predators and prey, plants and animals keeping each other in perfect balance. This idea — of Earth’s lifeforms as ...

Euripides’ Medea tells the story of a woman who, after being abandoned by her husband, becomes inconsolable and ultimately murders her children. Centuries later, paleontologist Peter Ward borrowed the ...

Medea isn't the kind of character who needs additional flaws heaped on. In fact, it's a testament to Greek tragedy that Euripides, her most famous chronicler, made the mythological figure sympathetic ...