During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

Galapagos birds helped Darwin formulate his theory of evolution. Now some of those birds have evolved a dislike of all the noise of busy tourism.

The Galapagos is a province in Ecuador well known for the diversity of finches, who helped British naturalist Charles Darwin uncover the process of evolution by natural selection ...

UK New species of Galapagos finch ‘can arise after just six consecutive droughts’ The Darwin finches, a group of about 18 species of passerine birds, are well known for their wide diversity in ...

The finches that call Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands home are biological rock stars, as they provided a key piece of evidence for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. One reason for this is how ...

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

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

The Darwin finches, a group of about 18 species of passerine birds, are well known for their wide diversity in beak form and function.

Galápagos finches could be singing a different song after repeated drought—one that leads to speciation Summary author: Becky Ham Peer-Reviewed Publication American Association for the ...

INTRODUCTION THE land faunas of oceanic islands have always excited considerable evolutionary speculation, and, starting with the “Origin of Species”, the Geospizinæ, the endemic Galapagos ...

A flock of finches, the birds famously studied by Charles Darwin in his theory of evolution, have been reintroduced to an area of the Galapagos Islands.