{"id":841,"date":"2004-02-24T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:13","slug":"archeology-darwins-beagle-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"archeology: darwin&#8217;s beagle found?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <em>Beagle 2<\/em> Mars lander may be lost, but British  archeologists may have found the original ship it was named after.  Charles Darwin&#8217;s observations during his voyage aboard <em>HMS Beagle<\/em> in the  1830s were crucial in helping him formulate the theory of evolution.  But the fate of the vessel, today an icon for scientific research, has  remained mysterious for more than a century. A British paper, <em>The  Observer,<\/em> reports that marine archeologist Robert Prescott of St.  Andrews University in Scotland is &#8220;quietly confident&#8221; he has found the  remains of the ship. Tracing the vessel&#8217;s last known movements to an  estuary in Essex, England, Prescott used ground-penetrating radar to  locate what he believes to be the ship&#8217;s final resting place. Radar  images show a ship similar in size to the Beagle lying under 12 feet of  mud inside an abandoned dock. &#8220;It is possible that this could be another  ship,&#8221; Prescott told <em>The Observer,<\/em> &#8220;but I am pretty sure that we have  now got the Beagle.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 2\/24\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beagle 2 Mars lander may be lost, but British archeologists may have found the original ship it was named after. Charles Darwin&#8217;s observations during his voyage aboard HMS Beagle in the 1830s were crucial in helping him formulate the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=841\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}