The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Wicklesham Quarry was recognised by both Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton as a globally significant fossil site ...

University of Queensland Associate Professor Stephen Carleton and CDU Associate Professor Adelle Sefton-Rowston are ...

Darwin is often written out of the conversation about Australia's literary prowess, but a new research project aims to turn the page on this ...

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

The Charles Darwin bicentennial ... attention is — quite rightly — focused on Darwin's contributions to our understanding of evolution and life on Earth. However, given the focus of Nature ...

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

Hopes for environmental law reform during the current term of federal government have been dashed, so what lies ahead for ...

Most of it is Shane himself. I always forget what a good electric guitarist he is and he also supplies bass and the drum ...

Old trees and animals are more valuable than we thought, research finds. It’s not just about carbon capture to mitigate climate change. Sea sponges that live for millennia hold useful secrets we mustn ...

On February 12, 1994, the renowned Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ was stolen from the National Gallery, Oslo, ...