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 ...

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Charles Darwin sailed the HMS Beagle around the world nearly two centuries ago, but his historic voyage is still inspiring young environmentalists today. A nonprofit called Darwin200 is taking a ...

Charles Darwin’s five-year voyage around the world aboard the HMS Beagle is one of the most famous scientific expeditions of all time. API/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Heritage Images/Hulton Archive/Getty ...

The cabin where Darwin worked and slept also housed the ship’s library, which he used for both reference and inspiration in his research. The library was dispersed at the end of the voyage, and its ...

Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, the defining document for our understanding of evolution, after a trip to the Galápagos Islands. But the English naturalist didn’t dream up his theory in ...

If you appreciate Charles Darwin’s contributions to science and have a special love for LEGOs (and who doesn't?)—boy do we have news for you. LEGO Ideas user Luis Peña has mapped out a detailed ...

Page from Conrad Martens’s sketchbooks (1833–35), from his time on board the HMS Beagle (courtesy Cambridge University Library) Yet the sketchbooks aren’t just about Darwin; Martens was an adventurous ...

What do a golf ball, a parasitised tarantula and Charles Darwin have in common? They are all linked to a variety of fungal specimens scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have archived or ...

Christened Oosterschelde, the restored 164-footer is twice as long as Darwin’s ship and will carry double the passengers. Darwin200 has selected one young conservationist from each of the 200 ...

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 ...