MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Orthodox religious activists festooned a Moscow museum named for Charles Darwin with banners and leaflets denouncing evolution theory in a display of disdain for secular education. Full story
The mystery surrounding the origin of a wolflike predator that once lived near Antarctica — a puzzle that stumped even Charles Darwin — has now been solved, researchers say. Full story
Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo, who first used the telescope to study the sky, or Charles Darwin, who put forward the theory of evolution, argues a psychologist and expert in scientific genius. Full story
Rachel Maddow reviews the science-challenged Republican congressmen who are vying for the House Science Committee with the silver lining that Charles Darwin garnered 4,000 votes by write-in in Georgia. Maddow salutes silver linings by demonstrating the mixing of an Improved Whiskey Cocktail.
For more than a century, Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories have delighted children (and adults) with imaginary explanations of how animals came to look the way they do. Full story
British scientists have found scores of fossils that were collected by the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers but were lost for more than 150 years. Full story
At an annual fighting festival, people of one Peruvian town vent their frustrations with each other through fisticuffs before hugging and moving on.
This is one of the last photographs taken of Charles Darwin, who developed the theory of evolution whereby changes in species are driven, over time, by natural and sexual selection.
A one-year-old squirrel monkey named Charles Darwin rests on its minder's head during the filming of a TV movie in Berlin on July 21, 2011.
An actor dressed as Charles Darwin looks at the grave of Charles Darwin during a photocall at Westminster Abbey, in London on February 4, 2009. On February 12, 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. Darwin was an English naturalist who conceived the term Natural Selection to descri
