There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

Six consecutive droughts is all it takes for a new species of finch to emerge in the Galapagos islands, scientists have said.

By Liz Kimbrough In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s ...

Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition,” by evolutionary biologists Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant is the ...

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 ...

Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like waved albatrosses and blue- and red-footed boobies. You'll find birds on all of the Galápagos' islands ...

The islands are quite close together and they have similar landscapes, plants and animals. But if you look carefully, you can see that they’re not exactly the same. For example, the finches on ...

The Galapagos Islands are also threatened by an influx of tourists, who can damage the island’s environment and spread invasive plants that threaten the islands’ unique cloud forests and iconic Darwin ...

SAN DIEGO — For many divers, the Galapagos Islands represent the ultimate destination. San Diego diver Brian Zach recently ...

It is unlikely you'll visit just one island while vacationing on the Galápagos Islands. Each of the ... the flightless cormorant and the mangrove finch) reside, and 16 kinds of whales, including ...

Scientists have revealed that just six consecutive droughts can lead to the emergence of a new species of finch in the Galapagos islands. The Galapagos, an Ecuadorian province, is renowned for its ...