That’s enough stability that Charles Darwin dubbed them “living fossils” in 1859. Now we know what made that possible. A ...

Since Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, the incompleteness of the fossil record has been considered problematic for reconstructing evolutionary history from fossils. Darwin feared ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ...

In Darwin's day, virtually no fossils of early humans were known—one of the few was Neanderthal Man, discovered in Germany's Neander Valley in 1856—nor could anyone date them reliably.

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

It wasn't even a living creature. It was a trove of fossils. Never mind the notion of Darwin's finches. For a fresh view of the Beagle voyage, start with Darwin's armadillos and giant sloths.

Darwin himself was shaken by their absence. His conclusion was that the fossil record was lacked these transitional stages, because it was so incomplete. That is certainly true in many cases ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 ...

On the second voyage of HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin collected thousands of plant, animal, rock and fossil specimens, including 13 species of fossil mammals. Four of these were species of ground sloth, ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and ... time intervals over millions of years (e.g. Mr. Croll's strip of paper (Darwin, 1872)); calibrating distances on the globe to match depth of ...

While Darwin's shells aren't on display, you can see other examples of fossilised shells in the Fossils from Britain gallery. One of the first things Darwin collected can fit in the palm of your hand: ...

Biologists have identified a key connection between ecology and speciation in Darwin's finches, famous residents of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Prior work on these birds had established that ...