Efforts in US to mark Feb 12 as `Darwin Day`

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 15:52

As scientists the world over prepare to celebrate the 205th birthday of Charles Darwin - known as father of evolution - that falls Feb 12, US lawmaker Rush Holt has re-introduced a resolution in Congress to declare the day as `Darwin Day`.

Island animals tamer: Study proves Charles Darwin`s Galapagos theory correct

Last Updated: Monday, January 13, 2014, 01:59

Charles Darwin`s Galapagos theory that states animals living on islands were tamer than on the mainlands has been proven correct by the scientists in a new study.

Frog named after Darwin croaks its last

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 09:13

A frog named after Charles Darwin has gone extinct because of a deadly amphibian skin disease, scientists believe.

New rat species discovered in birthplace of `theory of evolution`

Last Updated: Sunday, September 22, 2013, 16:20

One hundred years after the death of Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, an international team of zoologists has discovered a new genus of mammal in the Halmahera Island in Indonesia.

Scientists gather in Galapagos Islands to discuss evolution

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 10:43

Scientists from the Americas and Europe gathered in Ecuador`s Galapagos Islands to discuss evolution in the place that inspired Charles Darwin to develop his theory of the evolution of species.

Darwin`s personal letters to be made available online

Last Updated: Monday, March 25, 2013, 20:35

Thousands of personal letters by 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin will be released to the public online for the first time.

Darwin`s personal letters to be made available online

Last Updated: Monday, March 25, 2013, 15:50

Thousands of personal letters by Charles Darwin will be released to the public online for the first time.

Galapagos tortoises more than 1,000 in number now

Last Updated: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 16:04

Galapagos tortoise, who’s number had slipped down to merely 15 in the world in the 1970s, have risen to 1,000 on the islands thanks to a successful breeding program.

Fossil data yields understanding of Darwin’s `abominable mystery`

Last Updated: Friday, December 7, 2012, 21:01

New research has shed new light on what Charles Darwin famously called "an abominable mystery": the apparently sudden appearance and rapid spread of flowering plants in the fossil record.

Fungi wrapped by Darwin in newspaper found in Cambridge

Last Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 20:41

Fungi and seaweed collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle`s voyage to South America in 1832-33 have been found still wrapped in an 1828 newspaper by a librarian at Cambridge University.

180-year-old fungus collected by Darwin found in Cambridge library

Last Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 13:34

Fungi and seaweed collected by Charles Darwin on his Beagle Voyage 180 years ago has been discovered, wrapped in newspaper in a Cambridge University library.

UK scientists find `lost` Darwin fossils

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 09:32

British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.