Portal:Paleontology/On this day/April 26
- 1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch was born in Stolpe an der Oder, Prussia.
- 1832 - Charles Darwin and three other crewmen from the second voyage of the HMS Beagle rented a home in Botafogo, Brazil, while the ship returned to Bahia to recheck some nautical measurements.
- 2014 - Adolf Seilacher died at age 89.