The mysterious curly coated horses in South America evaded the famed naturalist. But now one couple is forming a herd of ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn ... invited to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy on a voyage of the HMS Beagle, Darwin had become an astute and insatiable scientist ...

Darwin is destined for life as a country parson. But before settling into such a quiet life, he yearns to have an adventure in the tropics. He reads and rereads Alexander von Humboldt's inspiring ...

In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...

In 2015, the Northern Territory Country Liberal government, controversially, leased the run-down port of Darwin to Chinese ...

The vessel will trace the route of Charles Darwin's 1831 voyage as part of a conservation project. The piece was commissioned ahead of a sea journey following in the naturalist's footsteps.

Charles Darwin adored novels. He read them on his now-famous voyage on the Beagle, and at the end of his life he was still ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ... Darwin’s tutor at Cambridge recommended him as a ‘gentleman naturalist’ on a voyage around the world on HMS Beagle.

Following a 7,000-mile-long rescue mission for conservation, 33 tiny Southern Darwin’s frogs ( Rhinoderma darwinii) were born at London Zoo. This species is particularly susceptible to the deadly ...

During his famed voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin noted about the Galápagos Islands that “by far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago…is that the ...

[imitates monkey] CHARLES DARWIN: To prove this hypothesis was correct I set off on my voyage on the HMS Beagle to Australia and the Galapagos Islands. While I was there I started to put into ...

In no rush to take holy orders, in 1831 Darwin accepted an offer to embark on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Drawing of H.M.S. Beagle from A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World by Charles ...