Fossils collected by Darwin on his global voyages on the Beagle will be digitally scanned and made available online On 23 September 1832 a young naturalist, thousands of miles from home and frequently ...
He “realized he had been looking for a ghost, a unicorn, an animal that had been extinct for thousands of years. It was Mylodon.” Gigantic sloth, extinct mammal of the Pleistocene Epoch, drawing ...
We have completed digitising the historic fossil mammals collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle. 25 years before he published his theory of evolution through natural selection, a ...
On the second voyage of HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin collected thousands of plant, animal, rock and fossil specimens, including 13 species of fossil mammals. Four of these were species of ground sloth, ...
One of the goals of the Beagle voyage is to establish a Christian mission on Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America. The Beagle's other goal here is to chart the complex coastline -- ...