Galápagos plants show repeated evolution and emerging species, emphasizing evolution’s flexibility and active role today.

Most people have this image of Charles Darwin sitting under a tree, having a sudden lightbulb moment about how life works. In reality, it was a massive, decades-long slog that started with a five-year ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Humanity’s understanding of life was forever altered when ...

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the annual Darwin Days in Ithaca, which is hosted by the Museum of the Earth. More than 160 years after Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species, ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that are 538 million years old. The rapid arrival of animals so different to ...