Books such as Charles Lyell's recently published ... More than a decade after his 'Origin of Species', Darwin found courage to publish ideas he had once only hinted at. In 'The Descent of Man ...

Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection ...

Charles Darwin couldn’t wait to get his ... “the swamps are pink with June.” Darwin, also an orchid-lover, at the end of his “On the Origin of Species” imagined an “entangled bank, clothed with many ...

Find out the different ways scientists have of describing what species are, how they form and how many there are on Earth.

Editor’s note: What follows is an excerpt adapted from a new book, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, out this month from Princeton University Press.

A new international collaborative study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which ... "This is one of the most important datasets that exists on the origin of the ...

Charles Dickens, a master of Victorian literature, crafted timeless stories that remain deeply relevant today. Here are 10 of his most celebrated works that every reader should explore: The story ...

Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to ...

King Charles and Prince William unexpectedly shared birthday messages for Harry on social media – a surprising move that comes amidst their ongoing family feud. While it’s unknown whether ...

Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered parasitizing adult fruit flies – the first of its kind ever documented. Parasitoid wasps' life cycles can get pretty gruesome (at least from the ...