Some of our most famous specimens were collected by Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy during the round-the-world voyage of HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. Accepted on board as a gentlemanly ...

St. Jago, one of the Cape Verde Islands, is the first place Darwin disembarks on his Beagle voyage. "The geology of St. Jago," Darwin notes, "is very striking yet simple: a stream of lava formerly ...

The reconstruction, led by science historian John van Wyhe of the National University of Singapore, catalogs more than 195,000 pages of text and 5,000 illustrations. The project began in 2006 when van ...

It was a trove of fossils. Never mind the notion of Darwin's finches. For a fresh view of the Beagle voyage, start with Darwin's armadillos and giant sloths. "What we had for dinner to day would ...

The HMS Beagle landed at Port Desire ... Darwin would have agreed. Martens left the voyage after just a year, when costs forced FitzRoy to downsize. But the three later met up in Sydney, where ...

The historic Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde has officially arrived in after exploring the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Retracing the voyage of the HMS Beagle, on which naturalist, geologist ...

Charles Darwin recorded the rocks and fossils he collected on the Beagle Voyage in these notebooks.In these rather plain jotters Charles Darwin (1809-1882) recorded all the dry specimens that he ...

“It is a hideous-looking creature,” he wrote in The Voyage of the Beagle, “stupid, and sluggish in its movements.” Since those encounters, however, the iguanas have won over many scientists.

In September 1835, the Beagle arrived in the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles from Ecuador. Darwin made detailed notes and collected lots of animals, plants, insects and reptiles. He noted that the ...

On the second voyage of HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin collected thousands of plant, animal, rock and fossil specimens, including 13 species of fossil mammals. Four of these were species of ground sloth, ...

One of the goals of the Beagle voyage is to establish a Christian mission on Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America. The Beagle's other goal here is to chart the complex coastline ...