The HMS Beagle, with a young Charles Darwin on board, only spent about five weeks in the Galapagos Islands, which seems short when you consider the importance the visit would have for Darwin, the Islands, and science in general. Darwin kept a journal, which he later expanded into a book, The Voyage of the Beagle, […]
Galapagos is full of dazzling wildlife not found anywhere else: Giant tortoises Darwin’s famous finches and mockingbirds Hawks Snakes and more. But ask a biologist, and he or she will tell you that the most impressive native resident is the marine iguana.
The name of Charles Darwin and his famous book the Origin of Species will forever be linked with the Galapagos Islands. Although he was only in the Galapagos for five weeks in 1835, it was the wildlife that he saw there that inspired him to develop his Theory of Evolution. Today he is remembered in the Galapagos […]
