The £2 coin depicts the Beagle, the ship that took Shrewsbury-born Darwin on his famous voyage of discovery. Beagle was ...

Discover who Charles Darwin was. Learn about his early life, education, voyage of the Beagle, theory of evolution, and ...

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“[Mister] Renous, alluding to myself, asked him what he thought of the King of England sending out a collector to their country, to pick up lizards and beetles, and to break stones? The old gentlemen ...

Charles Darwin spent five years sailing around the world aboard the Beagle. In between exploring South America and checking out the Galapagos, Darwin had a lot of time to kill. Luckily, the Beagle's ...

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Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea voyage. This is the story of the HMS Beagle, which ...

For the five years Charles Darwin spent sailing on the HMS Beagle the budding naturalist had around 404 books for company. After the ship returned to England on October 2, 1836, the books were ...

A group of marine archeologists may have solved one of the world’s most enduring maritime mysteries -- the final resting place of the Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin traveled the globe for ...

"Darwin's 'Beagle' notebooks are the most direct sources we have for his experiences on his epic voyage, and they now survive as some of the most precious documents in the history of science and ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Sydney did offer more civilisation than Darwin had seen in years. In 1836 it had a population of 20,000 Europeans, compared with a few thousand in New Zealand and a few hundred in Tahiti. Here the ...