Aboard HMS Beagle in 1832, near the Cape Verde island of Santiago (then called St Jago), the young naturalist Charles Darwin met his match in the form of a common octopus. Surrounded by the Tank ...

So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account of his trip around the coast of South America, between the islands of the Galápagos, and back to England—a journey that inspired ...

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 ...

An endangered species of frog named after Charles Darwin has been saved from extinction ... potentially saving the species first discovered by Darwin during his epic voyage on HMS Beagle. In 1841, ...

Dhruv Shenai talks to Peter Mason about turning the The Voyage of the Beagle into a piece of travel literature ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the ... At Cambridge University he became very much interested in natural history and sailed on the ship HMS Beagle in 1831 to South ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural ... a ‘gentleman naturalist’ on a voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. Darwin jumped at the chance. Over the following five years, Darwin ...

Following a 7,000-mile-long rescue mission for conservation, 33 tiny Southern Darwin’s frogs ( Rhinoderma darwinii) were born ...

Charles Darwin's period in Chile during his epic voyage on the Beagle was the most influential on his later thinking, according to a University of Manchester academic. Dr Patience Schell, Senior ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... research and what he had seen when travelling across the globe on the Beagle. Darwin recognised that his theory could offend some people, writing in ...

An endangered species of frog named after Charles Darwin has been ... saving the species first discovered by Darwin during his epic voyage on HMS Beagle. In 1841, French zoologist André Marie ...