The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

In the mid-19th century, a microscopic invader swept across Ireland, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The potato ...

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

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

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 ...

Managers launched a formal evaluation of new measures to reduce the number of Western Alaska chum salmon caught in pollock ...

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

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

Shark depredation is a rising issue in recreational fishing, especially in Florida, where sharks steal fish straight off anglers' lines. Researchers harnessed citizen science -- social media, angler ...

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