The mysterious curly coated horses in South America evaded the famed naturalist. But now one couple is forming a herd of ...

a 26-year-old Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle. The now famous scientist had spent three years sailing around South America studying animals, fossils and geology, and was on his way home ...

Darwin considered the process that a fertilized egg goes through on the way to becoming a multibillion-celled adult as crucial to understanding how basic anatomical parts of both animals and ...

The fast-running, flightless bird is a species that is pivotal to keeping the Patagonia grasslands growing and thriving.

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In tidal pools along the Firth of Forth, Darwin and Grant collect sea mats, animals that resemble plants. Grant suspects that such creatures lie close to the roots of the animal kingdom.

It has the delightful effect of generating weapons, ornaments, songs, and colors, especially on male animals. Darwin believed that some such ornaments, such as stags' antlers, helped males fight ...

Darwin’s view here is now amply documented and understood at the most fundamental level of DNA. Darwin packed this paragraph with all of the elements of the process of natural selection.

Darwin’s Cats, a pioneering research initiative ... “Cats are one of the least-studied companion animals in genomics, and as a result we are missing out on all that genetics can tell us ...

What animals can think? Created with Sketch. Charles Darwin with his theory of evolution was one of the first scientists to acknowledge animals’ mental and emotional capacities. Since then ...