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 ...

Tui De Roy / Minden Pictures In Charles Darwin’s day, the Galápagos Islands were perhaps the best place in the world to observe evidence of evolution by natural selection. They still are.

The year was 1835, and during his groundbreaking five-week visit, Darwin recorded the presence of a small bird on the island ...

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 ...

A tiny black bird was spotted on a Galápagos island for the first time in nearly 200 years — when Charles Darwin first ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was not the Galapagos wildlife encounter I expected, but considering I’d already spotted five of the iconic “Big 15” animals between the airport and the seaport, run-ins with the 9,000 ...