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.

The phrase "survival of the fittest" functions principally in evolutionary theory to describe the biological concept of ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

The London Underground mosquito been extensively studied as an example of humans driving evolution and emergence of new species ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fueled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk. As early as 8,000 years ...

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

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome.

IT is now at least eight years since there have been any flutterings in the cytological dovecot. Everyone had settled down to a cell containing a nucleus with chromosomes, karyoplasm, karyosome ...

Five hundred years after the Spanish explorers, billionaires' dreams of new riches and discovery launched from near Canaveral ...