See my response to Ross for some examples. Along the historical line, see research on genetic clocks (much of which is more preliminary than you will see claimed in popular reports) and research on cladistics (which has multiple times now has lead to successful predictions that there should be an ancestor that looks like X, and it might be likely to be found somewhere around Y at time period Z.)

Of course all of that discussion tends to take place out of the public eye because following it takes a lot more knowledge than most people have, and you can't even begin to present that stuff until the basic assumption of evolution has been accepted.

Cheers,
Ben