One of Darwin’s finches is the mangrove finch, which today lives in just two isolated patches (totaling about 74 acres) of forest here. Invaders already have found them—egg-eating rats and ...

Additionally, Isabela Island is where several endangered or critically endangered species (such as the Galápagos penguin, the flightless cormorant and the mangrove finch) reside, and 16 kinds of ...

My great, great, great uncle Edwin was part of an expedition that changed the way we think about the world. And I’m returning to the place he explored nearly 200 years ago, the Galápagos Islands!

On his visit to the islands in 1835, Charles Darwin noticed the slight differences between the same types of animal on each island. This helped him work out how they had adapted to their ...

particularly relating to endemic shark populations and mangrove ecology. Silver Galapagos in the Galapagos Islands. The cruise market here has boomed since 2010, when it was opened to ...