Voyage of the Beagle Darwin Deck

2016 – (See Cards | Deck Info | Download cards : board : rules | Purchase Box Set : Cards Only)…

This is a deck made with research help from Karen James and includes commissioned art of a variety of organisms that Darwin observed or collected whilst on the H.M.S. Beagle. This deck will include 40 new cards and also a small game board that depicts a map of the voyage route. Note that the different card border colours are representative of different legs of the journey.

Galapagos Prickly Pear

Opuntia echios
Scale 9 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
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Plantae, Angiosperms, Eudicots

1 POINTS

Fact: This prickly pear is a favourite meal for the Galápagos tortoises. It’s presence is also a selective pressure and has resulted in changes to the tortoise’s shell.

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Graphic by Robert Ballwww.robertmball.com/
Opuntia echios is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is endemic to theGalápagos Islands (Ecuador) and is commonly known as the Galápagos prickly pear, but there are five other species of prickly pears that also are endemic to the archipelago (O. galapageia, O. helleri, O. insularis, O. megasperma and O. saxicola). There […] read more

Lathyrus nervosus

Lathyrus nervosus
Scale 6 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
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Plantae, Angiosperms, Eudicots

3 POINTS

Fact: During the Beagle voyage, this pea plant specimen was collected in Bahia Blanca, near Buenos Aires on October 2nd, 1832.

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Graphic by Simon Gurrwww.gurrillustration.com/
Lathyrus /ˈlæθɨrəs/[1] is a genus of flowering plant species known as sweet peas and vetchlings. Lathyrus is in thelegume family, Fabaceae, and contains approximately 160 species. They are native to temperate areas, with a breakdown of 52 species in Europe, 30 species in North America, 78 in Asia, 24 in tropical East Africa, and 24 […] read more

Megatherium

Megatherium americanum
Scale 9 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia

4 POINTS

Play: Megatherium has a MOVE of 2 and is EXTINCT.
“To my great joy I found the head of some large animal, imbedded in a soft rock. — It took me nearly 3 hours to get it out: As far as I am able to judge, it is allied to the Rhinoceros.” Darwin, 1832: On finding a Megatherium specimen.

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Graphic by Rachel Ignotofskywww.rachelignotofskydesign.com/
Megatherium (/mɛɡəˈθɪəriəm/ meg-ə-theer-ee-əm from the Greek mega [μέγας], meaning “great”, and therion[θηρίον], “beast”) was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the late Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.[1] Its size was exceeded by only a few other land mammals, including mammoths and Paraceratherium. The first fossil specimen […] read more

Beagle Runs Ashore

Event Card
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Event

Play: Can be played at the start of one’s TURN for below effect, and then discarded.
Effect: All other players miss their turn. In effect, the player who uses this card can add an extra three ACTIONS during their TURN.

Graphic by Simon Gurrwww.gurrillustration.com/
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of £7,803, was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating […] read more

Chile Darwin’s Frog

Rhinoderma rufum
Scale 4 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Amphibia

7 POINTS

Play: This frog has a MOVE of 2.
Fact: The Chile Darwin’s frog is currently listed as “Critically Endangered” by the IUCN, but as there have been no confirmed sightings since around 1978, it may be EXTINCT.

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Graphic by Golly Bardgollybard.blogspot.ca/
The Chile Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma rufum), also called the Northern Darwin’s frog,[2] is one of only two members of the family Rhinodermatidae. It is endemic to central Chile. The Chile Darwin’s frog has a snout to vent length of about 32 mm (1.3 in). It has a fleshy proboscis, slender limbs and feet webbed between the first […] read more

Fitzroy Dolphin

Lagenorhynchus obscurus
Scale 8 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia

8 POINTS

Play: This dolphin has a MOVE of 2.
Fact: Darwin described this species as Delphinus fitzroyi from a specimen harpooned off Argentina in 1838.

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Graphic by Rachel Ignotofskywww.rachelignotofskydesign.com/
Photo by AllenMcCcommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DuskyDolphin.jpg
The dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) is a dolphin found in coastal waters in the Southern Hemisphere. Its specific epithet is Latin for “dark” or “dim”. It is very closely genetically related to the Pacific white-sided dolphin, but current scientific consensus holds they are distinct species.  Charles Darwin also described what turned out to be this […] read more