Before flowering plants emerged, the gymnosperms, which have cone-like structures instead of flowers, dominated the plant ...

In recent years, scientists have uncovered a variety of remarkable new species across the Greater Mekong region, which ...

Today, researchers using the genetic techniques of "evo devo" can trace the evolution of the various kinds of organisms that Darwin fit into his "tree of life" (here, from an 1837 notebook ...

Darwin and fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace developed the theory of evolution in the mid-1800s ... make do with very little water, while a tree in the Amazon rainforest needs to keep ...

His domed shell is as rough and ridged as damp tree bark. When I approach him—slowly ... return for showing the god Nanabosho ...

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In Darwin's day ... were curved -- features seen in tree-dwelling primates. How much she used her climbing abilities, or whether they were simply evolutionary leftovers from arboreal ancestors ...

Here, curators and directors at Victoria’s regional galleries tell us about some of the oldest or most storied items in their ...

Darwin was just 22 when he set out on a voyage that would change the way humanity understands itself and the natural world ...

Charles Darwin’s account of his trip around the coast of South America, between the islands of the Galápagos, and back to England—a journey that inspired his theory of evolution by natural ...

University of Bristol researchers reveal key drivers behind diverse jaw shapes in lizards and snakes, focusing on ecological ...

Dozens of tiny frogs named after Charles Darwin have landed in London after being rescued from a killer fungus in Chile. The peculiar, pointy-nosed southern Darwin's frog once thrived in the ...