Exceptionally rare Charles Darwin cartoon offers new theory of life on board HMS Beagle By Hannah Furness Updated November 25, 2015 — 12.58am first published November 24, 2015 — 3.08pm ...

The cartoon, painted by the ship’s official artist, Augustus Earle, shows Darwin in a top hat in a long-winded explanation about the characteristics of an insect to another officer.

Survival of the fittest: join artists for 12-hour live drawing session inspired by Charles Darwin. The virtual drawing marathon takes place 23 October on the South South platform.

Among the 4,000 pages of loose notes in the museum’s database are jottings from Darwin’s projects with his kids — he often had them collect plants for him to study — and thoughts that came ...

Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Until 3 May 2009 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK From 16 June until 4 ...

Pupils across Britain have been left dumbfounded by an odd question in their biology GCSE exam. Year 11 students took to Twitter to mock the paper which asked them to suggest one reason cartoons ...

Art World Decades After They Went Missing, Two of Charles Darwin’s Notebooks Were Returned Anonymously to Cambridge University. The books were removed from a special collections room in 2000 ...

Thousands of GCSE students were left baffled yesterday afternoon over a “stupid” question about Charles Darwin on the AQA Biology exam. Pupils were reportedly asked: “Explain why Darwin was ...

In July of 1838, Charles Darwin was twenty-nine years old and single. Two years earlier, he had returned from his voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle with the observations that would eventually form the ...