Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 12

January 12:

 * 1836 - The crew of the HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, caught first sight of Australia.
 * 1837 - Lorenzo Gordin Yates was born on the Isle of Sheppey, England.
 * 1866 - Charles-Théophile Gaudin died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
 * 1994 - John W. Wells died.