The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best known and most neatly mythologized episodes in the history of science.

Charles Darwin embarked on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle in 1831. The ship sailed to South America to carry out hydrographic surveying work. Darwin explored the continent's remote regions, ...

French supply ship Jacques Chevallier departed the Mediterranean Sea in December alongside aircraft carrier, Charles de ...

Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English naturalist ... Darwin visited four continents on the ship HMS Beagle. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection challenged the idea that ...

So begins The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin’s account ... in September 1835. As the ship hopped between the islands, Darwin “industriously collected all the animals, plants, insects ...

Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English naturalist ... Darwin visited four continents on the ship HMS Beagle.

Charles Darwin is celebrated as one of the greatest British scientists who ever lived ... He was recommended by one of his Cambridge professors for the role as naturalist and companion to the ship’s ...

Onboard, the crew of seven sailors is readying the tall ship for the next stage of its trip - retracing the voyage taken by a young Charles Darwin aboard the H-M-S Beagle that passed around South ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey ... At Cambridge University he became very much interested in natural history and sailed on the ship ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to science as a young boy by his intense interest in the diverse animals and plants that filled his surroundings. Later, despite his ...

Could they, in fact, be modified descendants? During the voyage, Darwin ships his fossils and other collections back home, and his fame as a naturalist-explorer begins to rise. One friend writes ...