“[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 ...
“After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
A microscope slide from Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle voyage has sold at auction for three times its estimate - after being found in a cardboard box. The slide, which Darwin used to examine volcanic ...
Beagle: In Darwin’s Wake is a commemoration of 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s book “On The Origin of Species”. Almost 180 years after Charles Darwin’s journey circumnavigating the ...
On Sept. 12, 2021, French documentary maker Victor Rault set sail from Plymouth, England, aboard his sailing ship, the Captain Darwin. His goal is to retrace the same route taken by famed naturalist ...
In 2023, almost two centuries after Darwin wrote his theory of evolution on a voyage on the Beagle, a ship set sail to retrace his journey. It arrived back in Falmouth last month. Larissa Clark from ...
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