Less than two years later, on November 22, 1859, Darwin published his great work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, and the unthinkable—that man was descended from beasts ...

The journey ends with modern humans as the only surviving human species in the world today. Along the way, visitors can see star specimens from the Museum collections, and get to grips with some of ...

Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'. This is the story of one ...

It is observed annually on the third Friday of May worldwide; this year, it's being marked on Friday, May 16, 2025.

Some critics of the theory of evolution argue that it doesn't convincingly explain the origin of new species. They say that members of one species couldn't become so different from other ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...