Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost, but it turns out that a lecturer had pulled them from a dumpster 40 years ago. The collection, with roughly 200 specimens from ...

Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisher. Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75. Captain James Cook's ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.