Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and ...

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

It is a common question — what's the most extraordinary scientific legacy of Charles Robert Darwin's vision of life? The ...

By 1873 Darwin was famed as the pre-eminent naturalist, biologist and geologist of his age. He is credited as the father of evolutionary biology, responsible for the unifying theory of the life ...

A man charged with murder over the 2020 death of his partner has received bail in Darwin Local Court a day after being extradited from Victoria. Peter Scammell's defence lawyer successfully argued his ...

A man been granted bail over the alleged murder of his partner five years after she was found dead with a cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills in her system.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Time has long been a concern for great thinkers, and Charles Darwins widely shared reflection highlights its deep connection to how we understand life itself. His message suggests that casually ...

Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne is a true classic in that it has never been out of print since its first ...

Charles Darwin has an illustrious place in history as the father of evolution. His ideas forever changed how we understand ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...