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

Aboard HMS Beagle in 1832, near the Cape Verde island of Santiago (then called St Jago), the young naturalist Charles Darwin met his match in the form of a common octopus. Surrounded by the Tank ...

With Wallace's prompting, Darwin decides he should publish his ... It begins "When on board HMS. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic ...

As Visit Essex says, the two hamlets form one of the county’s oldest fishing villages. It is home to a 1000-year-old church - St Peter's Church - once run by "the King of the Smugglers" William “Hard ...

Both behind the scenes and on display in the galleries, you’ll find many specimens collected by Charles Darwin on his five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Take a closer look at nine highlights from the ...

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.

The Galápagos yellow warblers on the more populous island of Santa Cruz also increased the duration of their song when ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the ... At Cambridge University he became very much interested in natural history and sailed on the ship HMS Beagle in 1831 to South ...

Darwin’s tutor at Cambridge recommended him as a ‘gentleman naturalist’ on a voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. Darwin jumped at the chance. Over the following five years, Darwin visited ...

Hear how Darwin trained in understanding the Welsh landscape and geology before his famous voyage of discovery on HMS Beagle, which led to the groundbreaking theory of evolution by natural selection.

Darwin’s ship which famously carried him around the world as a 22-year-old, is speculated to be buried in the mud of the riverbank. After it was decommissioned in 1845, HMS Beagle was refitted ...