
London: 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. Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Today that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a "gloomy corner" of the massive, drafty British Geological...

07:51 AM, Jan 17, 2012

London: Scientists claim that a species of giant tortoise which influenced Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and has been feared extinct for 150 years may still be alive in the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. A team in the US says that genetic clues suggest pure-bred members of the species have recently interbred with some of their cousins, after it found the genetic footprint of the species Chelonoidis elephantopus...

04:57 PM, Jan 10, 2012

Dawkins' book is the most recent to take aim at "creationism." ...

08:08 PM, Oct 05, 2009

Charles Darwin's work has evolved into cyberspace with the launch of an online archive. ...

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