Before he became the calm, bearded icon of science, Charles Darwin was a miserable, seasick 22-year-old just trying ...

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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 ...

Descendants of crew members from the historic HMS Beagle gathered in Shrewsbury for a special event celebrating the life and legacy of naval surgeon Benjamin Bynoe.

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 ...

To reconstruct and document Charles Darwin's historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle for one of the longest reality-television productions in the history of broadcasting, Netherlands-based VPRO broadcast ...

Scientists have successfully analyzed Charles Darwin's original specimens from his HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the ...