There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and his colleagues during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-1836). The different finch species on ...

Few people have the tenacity of ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant, willing to spend part of each year since 1973 in a tent on a tiny, barren volcanic island in the Galapagos. Even fewer would ...

Wolf Island, in the Galápagos, is remote and rarely visited. But this volcanic island is home to an unusual group of birds: vampire ground finches. Photographer Thomas P Peschak had the rare ...

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

This morning came the talk that everyone had been waiting for - Princeton professors Peter and Rosemary Grant presented their 33-year project on the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches on the ...

In fact, the region is home to 45 types of marine birds and 22 land birds you won't see anywhere else (think: Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like ...

Here, the Galapagos’ giant tortoises lazily graze on the land – and there’s a lava tunnel to explore, too. The design of Finch Bay brings the outside in – nature and wildlife are the main ...