The Galapagos Islands, a remote archipelago off the coast of Ecuador, may be the birthplace of our scientific understanding of evolution. Charles Darwin, who put the Galapagos on the map, pointed ...

To biologists, a trip to the Galápagos is something of a pilgrimage to sacred evolutionary ground, for it is here in 1835 that Charles Darwin witnessed how giant tortoises, finches, and other taxa ...

A sizeable population of marine iguanas is also regularly seen on Genovesa Island, and at Darwin Bay, visitors can snorkel with aquatic animals like sea turtles and manta rays, revealing the ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different ... In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really ...

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 ...

For decades, the Charles Darwin Research Station has been at the forefront of leading initiatives in conservation, restoration and sustainable development to ensure the Galápagos Islands remain ...

These little differences have been caused by the way the animals have adapted to live on the islands over many years. This was something that Charles Darwin noticed on his famous expedition to the ...