Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. London: The HMS Beagle expedition was arguably the most important voyage in scientific history, in which Charles Darwin collected the ...

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It was the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands nearly 180 years ago, enabling him to make his breakthrough on the theory of evolution. Now another HMS Beagle will depart on a new ...

Dr Robert Prescott intends to end the 140-year-long mystery A muddy river bank in the flat, watery landscape of southern Essex may seem an unlikely place to find one of the most important ships in ...

An exact replica of Charles Darwin's cramped cabin aboard the HMS Beagle has been produced as part of a £1 million exhibition staged at his home in Kent. The study of Charles Darwin opens up as part ...

It's the consolation prize of the century. He couldn't find Beagle 2, and the nation suffered with him. But he may well have located Beagle 1. As the director of the failed Mars Lander Beagle 2 ...

AbstractRobert FitzRoy, Captain of HMS Beagle and second governor of New Zealand, has two contradictory reputations among modern academics. Evolutionary biologists and Darwin scholars generally view ...

The dock where Charles Darwin’s ship HMS Beagle spent its final days has been given protected status to help preserve it for the future. Darwin made the discoveries that led to the formulation of his ...

Conrad Martens, the Beagle's ship's artist, sketched Patagonian Indians in Gregory Bay Sketches made during the naturalist Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle voyage to South America have been put online. The ...