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Egg From Darwin Voyage Comes to Light

Naturalist signed—and cracked—relic from Beagle excursion

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 10, 2009 9:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – The only egg known to have survived from Charles Darwin's round-the-world voyage on the Beagle has surfaced in Cambridge University's zoology museum, the BBC reports. A volunteer sorting through the museum's vast egg collection found the egg—from an ostrich-like bird in Uruguay—and realized...   Read full story »

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