Charles Darwin

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin said sexual selection drove male butterfly looks, while rival Alfred Russel Wallace believed it was just natural selection. Now we have an answer.

On the 215th anniversary of the birth of the world's most famous naturalist Charles Darwin, scientists have painstakingly completed an inventory of his eclectic, extensive personal library, and 9,300 titles are now available to view online for free.

What do you get when you cross an elephant, a llama, a camel, and a rhinoceros? If you have no idea, don’t feel too bad, it puzzled Charles Darwin too. Known as Macrauchenia patachonica, the animal has evaded classification ever since, but a new DNA study has found where it fits on the family tree.

A deep-sea microorganism has been discovered that has not evolved in over 2 billion years, with fossilized versions identical to living examples living in the sea off the coast of Chile today. Researchers say the organism actually supports Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution