The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint has unveiled its five designs for the new year’s commemorative coin set, which honors ...

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

“[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 ...

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 ...

The Darwin200 expedition is expected to cover 400,000 nautical miles in the hopes of empowering a new generation of conservationists. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 17, 2023 1:30 PM EDT Get the Popular ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Charles Darwin was a prolific letter writer — not unusual in his day, of course, before telephones, e-mail and Facebook. A little less usual is the degree to which his correspondence has been ...

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 ...