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 ...

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.

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.

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

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

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

This year Canaveral National Seashore celebrates 50 years of keeping its ecological head above water, as a new wave of ...