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 ...

The Galápagos Islands are renowned for their unique biodiversity, particularly the famous Darwin's finches, which have become a symbol of evolution and natural selection. However, these endemic ...

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

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 ...

Darwin's Finches These drab but famous little birds of the Galapagos Islands are a living case study in evolution. Isolated in the South Pacific, they have developed 14 species from a common ancestor ...

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 ...

small black darwin finch hopping through the vegetation and feeding on the ground on the Galapagos islands in the pacific ocean. small black darwin finch hopping through the vegetation and feeding on ...

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

The Galápagos Islands are a spectacular natural treasure and one of the ... for it is here in 1835 that Charles Darwin witnessed how giant tortoises, finches, and other taxa each varied from island to ...

Did you know the Galápagos Islands have species found nowhere else ... He noticed giant tortoises and different finches, showing how isolation and unique environments drive evolution.

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 ...

This morning came the talk that everyone had been waiting for - Princeton professors Peter and Rosemary Grant presented their 33-year project on the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches on the ...