Charles Darwin is credited for some of his major findings and observations about nature, evolution and species.

The phrase "survival of the fittest" functions principally in evolutionary theory to describe the biological concept of natural selection.

Religious dogma clashed with early science, but fossils and discoveries reshaped humanity’s understanding of Earth’s history.

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

All imported timber sold in Australia would carry a label indicating where it was grown, under a proposal by the national ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing them and using their corpses to spread.

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

In her Jan. 10 letter, Thea Hood has cherry-picked her quotations from Darwin. Creationists have a habit of doing that. In Chapter 6 of The Origin of the Species he ...

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest ...

When it comes to one of the most infamous disasters in Irish history, there's still more to be learned, including exactly ...

Five hundred years after the Spanish explorers, billionaires' dreams of new riches and discovery launched from near Canaveral ...