New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin of ...

Researchers suggest that evolution may speed up dramatically during certain periods, challenging a long-held theory and helping explain a puzzling 30-million-year gap between genetic estimates and the ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England in 1809. In 1825 he went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. His experience at university provided him with a wide scientific education. He ...