Ecuador's exceptional Galapagos archipelago has been at the heart of an ambitious decades-long preservation policy to protect its unique fauna from too many visitors. Could it serve as a model for ...

A new release “40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches ... and behavioral niche to measure changes in finch populations over four decades in the Galapagos archipelago. In the new edition ...

The Galapagos tortoise is one of the most iconic reptiles on Earth, and for good reason. These gentle giants are the largest ...

How do you know that finches' beak depth is heritable? You can see from Figure 2 that there is a correlation between the parents' and offsprings' beak size. How did the finch population change ...

In fact, the region is home to 45 types of marine birds and 22 land birds you won't see anywhere else (think: Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like ...

During the voyage, he visited the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador ... From the toothy jaws of the Archaeopteryx to the first ‘modern’ bird bill of Janavis, the evolution of the beak in ...

The Galapagos tortoise faces significant threats from a variety of predators, both natural and introduced. Historically, the tortoise's only natural predators were certain species of large birds and ...

Travelers visit this isolated strip of Santa Cruz's southern coastline for some quality face time with the Galapagos' marine turtles. If you visit between January and February, you may even catch ...

This can sometimes lead to the formation of new species. The Galápagos finches that helped Darwin form his theories on evolution are a classic example: At first, these songbirds were just one ...

Aging gracefully comes naturally to these creatures, which can live for hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of years ...