Charles Darwin

January 13, 2025 5:47 PM

Climate activists deface Darwin’s grave at London’s Westminster Abbey

Climate activists from Just Stop Oil painted over the grave of British naturalist Charles Darwin at London's Westminster Abbey on Monday. Two activists entered Westminster Abbey - Britain's site for royal weddings, coronations, burials and a major tourist attraction - on Monday morning and used spray chalk on Darwin's grave, the campaign group said in a statement. The activists wrote "1.5 is dead" in orange over the surface of the white marble gravestone - a reference to recent news that globa...

Fossil study finds how sea level changes shaped early life on Earth

A groundbreaking study from the University of Edinburgh has unveiled a new timeline of early animal fossils, suggesting a significant relationship between sea level fluctuations, marine oxygen variations, and the emergence of the earliest ancestors of present-day animals. The research, focusing on the Ediacaran-Cambrian interval (580-510 million years ago), provides fresh insights into the processes driving the development of Earth's earliest creatures. This period, long known for its explosion...