The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint has unveiled its five designs for the new year’s commemorative coin set, which honors ...

The £2 coin depicts the Beagle, the ship that took Shrewsbury-born Darwin on his famous voyage of discovery. Beagle was ...

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Discover who Charles Darwin was. Learn about his early life, education, voyage of the Beagle, theory of evolution, and ...

Charles Darwin spent five years sailing around the world aboard the Beagle. In between exploring South America and checking out the Galapagos, Darwin had a lot of time to kill. Luckily, the Beagle's ...

For the five years Charles Darwin spent sailing on the HMS Beagle the budding naturalist had around 404 books for company. After the ship returned to England on October 2, 1836, the books were ...

A group of marine archeologists may have solved one of the world’s most enduring maritime mysteries -- the final resting place of the Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin traveled the globe for ...

In 2023, almost two centuries after Darwin wrote his theory of evolution on a voyage on the Beagle, a ship set sail to retrace his journey. It arrived back in Falmouth last month. Larissa Clark from ...

December 27 and 28 stand as remarkable dates in history, marked by significant events that have shaped the course of nations, ...

“[Mister] Renous, alluding to myself, asked him what he thought of the King of England sending out a collector to their country, to pick up lizards and beetles, and to break stones? The old gentlemen ...

Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea voyage. This is the story of the HMS Beagle, which ...