The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint has unveiled its five designs for the new year’s commemorative coin set, which honors ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

Domestic pigeons have surprising cultural significance. They inspired Charles Darwin in his thinking about evolution, ...

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Fletcher’s Storythinking explains the vast role that storythinking plays in human affairs as chains of narratives drive ...

Primarily used to procure and eat food, bills are also used to probe mud, peck wood, tear flesh, sift water, pry seeds, build ...

After pulling my kayak ashore, I walked along the empty beach for an hour, collecting shells and fragments of red coral. I ...

A historical bee collection from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been newly researched and photographed.