The existence of ant colonies was a mystery even to the famous naturalist Charles Darwin. How could evolution produce workers ...

David Attenborough is a huge lover of books and has named his six favourites. In 2014, in an interview with the Folio Society ...

The famed naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin is, of course, best known for his works on evolution—specifically On the ...

English Heritage site Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, is just an hour from Watford and is great for a day out.

We all have our own secret retreat when the sun shines. Torre Abbey Sands is 'the town beach' which is easy to locate. It's ...

Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

Most coral reefs do not thrive in nutrient-poor “marine deserts” as once believed, but instead flourish in nutrient-rich ...

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.