Lost and found: New beetle collected by Darwin 180 years ago published on his birthday
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 09:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In 1832 Charles Darwin disembarked from HMS Beagle in Bahia Blanca, Argentina where he travelled by land to Buenos Aires. In Bahia Blanca, Darwin collected several fossils of large mammals along with many other living organisms, including several insects. More than 180 years later on Darwin's birthday, February 12, scientists name after him a long lost but new to science beetle genus and species from this collection.
