In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted ... A few million years ago, one species of finch migrated to the rocky Galapagos from the mainland of Central or South America.

These findings suggest that, because of the links between beaks and song, an entirely new species of Darwin's medium ground finches could evolve in response to six major Galapagos droughts.

The Galápagos are a stretch of 13 major islands that live as much in myth as on the map—a finch-crowded Brigadoon where Darwin arrived in 1835 and began to make observations that eventually ...

To biologists, a trip to the Galápagos is something of a pilgrimage to sacred evolutionary ground, for it is here in 1835 that Charles Darwin witnessed how giant tortoises, finches, and other taxa ...

The Darwin Arch, a natural rock in the Ecuadorean Province of Galapagos, has collapsed due to “natural erosion,” the Ministry of the Environment and Water reported late on Monday. “We inform ...

Few people have the tenacity of ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant, willing to spend part of each year since 1973 in a tent on a tiny, barren volcanic island in the Galapagos. Even fewer would ...

On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed how the beaks of finches differed. Only later, would he realise why this happened. Today, we can see how the different beaks serve different purposes.

A diver's journey to the Galapagos Islands aboard a small expedition ship. Diving with sharks, turtles, sea lions, rays and ...

Thirty-nine new species and subspecies of bird were subsequently described, mostly by Gould. The most famous of the discovered species are undoubtedly the Galapagos finches, commonly known as Darwin’s ...