Tag: Charles Darwin

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Closer to solving the mystery of the extinct Falklands' canid warrah

  

  The team headed by Kit Hamley also extended its research into the warrah (Dusicyon australis), an extinct species of fox. The warrah was the only native and terrestrial mammal to reside on the Falkland Islands at the time of European arrival. Subsequent hunting wiped the species out in 1856, making it the first extinct canid in the historic record, Hamley says.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Cambridge appeals for the recovery of missing Charles Darwin's notebooks with “Tree of Life” sketches

  

  Two of Charles Darwin-s notebooks containing his pioneering ideas on evolution and his famous “Tree of Life” sketch are missing, believed stolen, the Cambridge University Library said on Tuesday. The British scientist filled the leather notebooks in 1837 after returning from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. The library said they were worth millions of pounds.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2020 - 07:47 UTC

  Charles Darwin HMS Beagle unearthed dock in Essex under Historic England protection

  

  The remains of a rare 19th Century dock built for Charles Darwin's ship HMS Beagle has been recognized as a site of national importance. The submerged mud berth on the River Roach in Rochford, Essex, will now be protected against unauthorized change.

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  World tributes to Professor Hawking at his Westminster Abbey memorial service

  

  Tributes have been paid to renowned physicist Prof Stephen Hawking in a Westminster Abbey memorial service. British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Hawking in a BBC drama, and astronaut Tim Peake were among those giving readings at the ceremony.

• Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 03:31 UTC

  Stephen Hawking laid to rest alongside Newton and Darwin

  

  People gathered by the hundreds in the English city of Cambridge Saturday to pay their last respects to famed British scientist Stephen Hawking as his remains arrived at St. Mary the Great church where some 500 guests had been invited to the private funeral.

• Friday, January 19th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

  A Falklands' Caracara escapes from London Zoo and spends ten days on the loose

  

  A powerful bird of prey native to the Falkland Islands was captured on Wednesday after escaping from London Zoo and spending 10 days on the loose. There were repeated sightings of the two-foot tall raptor, called a Striated Caracara, in Camden this week, with one report that it was seen “ripping into a whole cooked chicken”.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2013 - 20:00 UTC

  Scientists solve mystery of the extinct Falkland Islands wolf

  

  It was an animal that puzzled Charles Darwin, who wondered how on Earth a large mammal that looked a bit like a wolf and a bit like a fox had arrived on barren islands nearly 500 kilometres from the mainland. Now, say biologists, the mystery of the now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf may have been resolved.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 18:02 UTC

  Falkland Islands wolf-like canine Warrah pre-dates human occupation

  

  Bones found on West Falkland in 2010 by a boy then aged thirteen, which were subsequently kept for a while in the bottom of his grandmother’s wardrobe, may have narrowed down the search for an answer to a mystery which puzzled Charles Darwin when he visited the Falkland Islands in 1837.

• Thursday, May 5th 2011 - 10:53 UTC

  Scientists plan to recreate Darwin’s five year voyage on HMS Beagle replica

  

  An international group of scientists plan to recreate Charles Darwin’s five-year sea voyage around the world aboard a replica of the HMS Beagle. They plan to set sail from London in 2014.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 18:54 UTC

  Ascension Island conceals Darwin’s best kept secret: lush “Little England”

  

  The lonely Ascension Island in the middle of the South Atlantic, and closely linked to the Falkland Islands (*) conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago, it was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical “cloud forest”.