A secretive creature observed by Darwin has long since been thought extinct, until observers recently spotted a specimen.

As Visit Essex says, the two hamlets form one of the county’s oldest fishing villages. It is home to a 1000-year-old church - St Peter's Church - once run by "the King of the Smugglers" William “Hard ...

Beagle voyage transforms Darwin. The voyage of the HMS Beagle-- which carries Charles Darwin to tropical forests, Andean peaks, and the Galapagos Islands -- is the most important experience of his ...

In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to ... to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy on a voyage of the HMS Beagle, Darwin had become an astute and insatiable scientist ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist ... At Cambridge University he became very much interested in natural history and sailed on the ship HMS Beagle in 1831 to South America and the Galapagos islands. In ...

The ship, launched in 1820, allowed Darwin to make observations that led to his theory of natural selection. The remains of a rare 19th Century dock built for Charles Darwin's ship HMS Beagle has ...

Researchers and historians have collected approximately 15,000 letters written both to and by Charles Darwin in an effort to better ... many of the plant specimens collected during Darwin’s HMS Beagle ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... a ‘gentleman naturalist’ on a voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. Darwin jumped at the chance. Over the following five years ...

During his famed voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin noted about the Galápagos Islands that “by far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago…is that the ...

Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English naturalist ... Darwin visited four continents on the ship HMS Beagle. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection challenged the idea that ...

In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...