NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Newmarket Films said Thursday it has acquired the U.S. rights to director Jon Amiel's "Creation," a film about Charles Darwin and his family.

BELLFLOWER, Calif., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. author Ray Comfort and actor Kirk Cameron say they plan to give away 100,000 copies of a new edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species."

LONDON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- British producer Jeremy Thomas claims his new movie "Creation" has not found a U.S. distributor because of its take on evolutionist Charles Darwin.

DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Scientists at the Duke University Medical Center say they've conducted the first study of the appendix through the ages and conclude Darwin was wrong.

ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, July 24 (UPI) -- The toucan's large bill helps it release heat when the colorful bird's body becomes too warm, researchers at Canada's Brock University said.

TORONTO, July 16 (UPI) -- Jon Amiel's Charles Darwin bio-picture "Creation" has been selected to open the 34th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, organizers said.

CAMBRIDGE, England, April 10 (UPI) -- The Zoology Museum at Britain's University of Cambridge said it has discovered an egg collected by Charles Darwin during a South American expedition.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 27 (UPI) -- The Texas State Board of Education adopted new science curriculum standards Friday that allow for the teaching of evolution in public schools.

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say data from the Human Genome Project are shedding new light on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.