The Bean Museum hosted a birthday party for Charles Darwin on Feb. 12. Visitors picked up a party passport to get stamped at each activity, then went room to room to hear stories, watch videos ...

Charles Darwin was born into 19th century British privilege, raised largely by his sisters after his mother died when he was eight. His one passion as a youth was collecting beetles.

Fun fact: Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, and Abraham Lincoln were both born on the same day, Feb. 12, 1809.But at the Natural History Museum Sunday, it was all about Darwin, from the birt… ...

Darwin and the Natural History Museum There are also a number of correspondences between Darwin and Richard Owen, the founder of the Natural History Museum, London, and an extraordinary scientist in ...

This shorebird specimen in the museum’s Division of Birds was collected by Charles Darwin in 1833. Chip Clark, NMNH With more than 148 million specimens and objects in its collection, the vast ...

That five-year voyage would change the course of Darwin’s life – and ours. It was on that trip that Darwin collected the specimens and took the notes that were the underpinnings of his theory of ...

20 YEARS AGO: NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF AUG. 2, 2001 A spectacle other than Frances Johnson’s twine ball drew onlookers out of homes and businesses in Darwin Thursday morning. Crewmen from Litch… ...

In honor of Charles Darwin’s 203rd birthday, a group of about 15 Philadelphia area school teachers gathered into the Penn Museum new educational classroom Saturday. The teachers came for College ...

The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences will turn the microscope on the life and work of biologist Charles Darwin on Saturday, Feb. 12.