New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

The evolutionary ladder is meant to be climbed one rung at a time with an organism shedding some traits and gaining others on ...

On the younger, black-rock islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild-growing tomatoes are doing something peculiar. They're ...

Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.

We typically think of evolution as progressing in one direction, with a species getting “better” and “better” as it goes. But ...

We have first these black lava fields without any plants or any animals living. Will take more than one or 2,000 years to have some vegetation growing over there.

Long ago, birds likely carried South American tomato seeds to the Galápagos Islands. Now, those island tomatoes are doing something strange—they’ve started producing a toxic ...

Galápagos giant tortoises trample woody plants, opening the terrain and making it easier for the albatrosses to take off and land. Galápagos Conservancy. The secret to ...

A species of iguana that went extinct nearly 200 years ago on one of the Galápagos Islands appears to be making a comeback, with some help from a team of conservationists.

Invasive plants can alter “the ways that animals ... S. Blake et al. Invasion by Cedrela odorata threatens long distance migration of Galapagos tortoises. Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 14 ...

The Galapagos Islands are home to some of the world's rarest flora and fauna. ... Galapagos Plants, Wildlife Under Threat ...

From the time those 14 tortoises were taken into captivity between 1963 and 1974 until they were finally released in 2020, conservationists with the NGO Galápagos Conservancy and the Galapagos ...