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 ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The London Underground mosquito been extensively studied as an example of humans driving evolution and emergence of new species ...

DURING the last ten years geneticists have been getting to grips with the problems of evolutionary change ; Prof. Dobzhansky describes the results of their work in this book. The first edition ...

IT is now at least eight years since there have been any flutterings in the cytological dovecot. Everyone had settled down to a cell containing a nucleus with chromosomes, karyoplasm, karyosome ...

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.