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, then a student at Cambridge, was taken on a tour of the woods and moors surrounding his half uncle Sir ...

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book "On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...

Though not quite. In the book’s last chapter, Dolnick briefly introduces Charles Darwin, whom he calls the “bomb maker.” In ...

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.

There are about 400 different species of mantis shrimp, the most dazzling-looking of which is undoubtedly the multi-hued peacock mantis shrimp. The waters of Costa Rica and Bali are particularly rich ...

And what would Darwin have made of climate change? The naturalist observed how species can adapt to such change over long periods of time, Pizarro remarks, but now the climate is changing at a ...

The frog lays its eggs upside down on the walls of tree cavities or root buttresses, where they eventually fall into the water below ...