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

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 ...

Charles Darwin travelled aboard the HMS Beagle. He collected specimens that inspired his theory of Natural Selection.This carved sperm whale's tooth, or scrimshaw, was made on the HMS Beagle.

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 ...

Discover the story of Charles Darwin's 1831 and 1842 tours of Wales ... and geology before his famous voyage of discovery on HMS Beagle, which led to the groundbreaking theory of evolution ...

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 ...

The ship is following the route taken by Charles Darwin on HMS Beagle in 1831. About 50 photos of the naturalist's childhood Shrewsbury home are uncovered by Shropshire Archives. The 500-year-old ...