The Great Race

“Ah! Bella!” the Italian woman exclaimed as she caught sight of the Amerigo Vespucci as it sailed up the Liffey — and she was right.

LONESOME GEORGE passed away ‘peacefully’ at the Charles Darwin Research Centre in the Galapagos.

Captain Cook, Master of the Seas

Richard Collins on a pioneering mind almost lost to history.

ACCORDING to the Examiner of June 26, the light died, last month, for the oldest known living animal.

DNA testing has shot down theories that an arrow held by an Australian museum was made out of a bone from British explorer Captain James Cook’s leg, finding that the remains probably are not even human.

A flintlock pistol reputed to have belonged to the explorer Captain James Cook is going under the hammer today.

Captain Cook - revered by many as the man who ‘‘discovered’’ Australia - may be muscled off a Sydney municipality’s logo by a dolphin because he is deemed dated and offensive to Aborigines.