Charles Darwin observed finches in the Galápagos while developing his theory of evolution by natural selection. Those finches' beaks are still evolving today, and scientists have identified ...

Swimming with a penguin was pretty much at the top of my list when I went to the Galapagos Islands in late June. After all, outside of venturing to the southern end of South America, where else wou… ...

Scientists seeking to help endangered Galapagos Islands birds survive a deadly parasitic threat put that question to the test. Researchers on Monday described a new method to assist Darwin's ...

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Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce.

They were studying some of the 15 species of Darwin's finches, so named because the famed naturalist observed them during the 1830s on his trip aboard the H.M.S. Beagle.

Darwin's finches, named for the British naturalist, are 14 species of birds that live on the Galapagos Islands, made up of 19 Pacific islands located about 1000 kilometres west of Ecuador.

Through natural selection, ... Evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant spent more than 20 years cataloguing traits in seed-eating finches on the Galapagos island of Daphne Major.

When Charles Darwin watched his famous finches flit about the craggy cliffs and lush forests of the Galapagos, he observed that something essential was at work in this remote part of the Pacific ...

British conservationists are to launch an ambitious project to safeguard the future of a colony of Galapagos finches which inspired Charles Darwin to formulate his radical theory of evolution.

Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands are once again providing insights into the theory of evolution, with two Flinders University studies investigating their dealings with a parasitic fly ...