Falmouth was the port where HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin first set sail in 1831, and his return after a five-year voyage changing the course ...

Charles Darwin looked forward to Sydney more than any other stop on his voyage around the world. After four years of travel, much of it in the wilds of South America, the young naturalist had ...

5. A fungus collected by Charles Darwin—Cyttaria darwinii Amongst Kew's numerous collections linked to the naturalist Charles Darwin, is a particular species of fungus he personally collected in the ...

Kew's Darwin collections span a wide range of items and specimens, including letters from the Beagle voyage and correspondences with his dear friend and Kew director, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. The ...

Another historic link to the village comes in the form of naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin. Darwin’s ship which famously carried him around the world as a 22-year-old, is speculated to be ...

An endangered species of frog named after Charles Darwin has been saved from extinction - thanks to London Zoo. A deadly fungus was threatening to wipe out Darwin’s frog in its native Chile. But a ...

Charles Darwin was not aboard the Beagle on October 18, 1839. Nor was he famous. Publication of On the Origin of Species lay almost two decades ahead.

Between 1831 and 1836, Darwin traveled the world on the HMS Beagle, where he visited the Galápagos Islands and first began thinking about the ideas his name would become synonymous with.

Darwin’s collection also included a German periodical that revealed the first published photographs of bacteria in 1877. But the naturalist’s library contained multitudes, showcasing his ...

After three weeks on Santiago, the Beagle’s captain no longer worried about Darwin’s resolve. “A child with a new toy could not have been more delighted than he was with St. Jago,” he wrote.

25 years before he published his theory of evolution through natural selection, a young Charles Darwin was on the voyage of a lifetime. Darwin was confronted with evidence of changes in the ...