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Usk Civic Society has long championed the legacy of Wallace, particularly his local connections and his deep affinity with nature, which was nurtured by the Welsh countryside. This year’s event will ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms. Strong reactions rippled across the United States. The eventual upshot: a ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, ...

A newly discovered species of dinosaur is now on display at London’s Natural History Museum . Researchers have named this new ...