"Darwin would be turning in his grave to know we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction." Darwin, best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection, died in 1882. He is buried in ...

Two climate activists are in police custody for spraying chalk paint on the Westminster Abbey grave. Louise Ferguson was invited because of her years of volunteering at Boughey Gardens tennis club.

Two pensioners have denied damaging Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey by spraying it with orange chalk paint. Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh ...

Newton died aged 84, and was buried with full honours in Westminster Abbey. As a celebrated natural philosopher, he was a new kind of national hero. Newton laid the foundations for our scientific age.

With a history which stretches all the way back to the 10th century, Westminster Abbey has ... There are many graves on the floor of the abbey, but the grave of the Unknown Warrior is the only ...