Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin helped shape the modern world. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello ... descending from man on down toward animals, and a judge appraising us up above in heaven.

One answer: for the fossil mammal and bird discoveries that most visitors miss, but which Charles Darwin ... animals of North America, has afforded the best support to the theory of Evolution ...

In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

Dr Martyn Linnie, curator of Trinity College Dublin’s Zoological Museum, has just launched a new book, bringing to life the many tales of the museum’s history and that of its permanent residents.

For some mothers, a beautifully preserved butterfly or beetle makes a perfect gift – a bit of natural history that celebrates ...

The Weeping Glass isn’t just a store – it’s a portal to the peculiar that has Pennsylvanians driving across the state just to experience its wonderfully weird offerings. The Weeping Glass beckons ...

Charles Darwin embarked on the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Archipelago, where he observed unique species of plants and ...

A trip into the expansive world of the Japanese-Sāmoan artist, where a reconsideration of what it means to be human requires ...

Evolution is a hot-button issue right now, as new science standards are being developed for Minnesota’s K-12 education. If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to ...

Earth’s wildlife is shaped by its environment—but what if evolution had played out on ... how would Earth’s most familiar animals change if they had evolved on an entirely different world?

Their findings highlight how global cooling events influenced enzyme evolution. Life has evolved over billions of years, adapting to the changing environment. Similarly, enzymes -- proteins that ...

The out-of-date one is this sort of Darwinian idea that we exist just ... And we know all these things happen, and they happen across the animal kingdom, which brings us to the second idea.