Researchers from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) are traveling to the Galapagos Islands this month to search for ways to combat a non-native, invasive fly that is ...

Charles Darwin spent only five weeks on the Galápagos Islands, and at first, British biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant didn’t plan to stay very long either – a few years at most. They landed in 1973 ...

Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 ...

For the first time scientists have observed in real-time evolutionary changes in one species driven by competition for resources from another. In a mere two decades, one of Charles Darwin's finch ...

Darwin's finches in the Galápagos archipelago provide an iconic model for the evolution of biodiversity on earth due to natural selection. A team of scientists from Princeton University and Uppsala ...

AMHERST, Mass. – They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation — which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes — seems to hold in retrospect, ...

Spending time with offspring is beneficial to development, but it's proving lifesaving to Galápagos Islands Darwin's finches. A new study has found evidence Darwin's finch females that spend longer ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The finches that call Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands home are ...

South America’s “foxes” are the most diverse collection of canids on the planet, and they were initially documented scientifically by none other than legendary naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1835, ...

A critically-endangered bird is making a comeback on the Galapagos Islands. Experts from the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Park Directorate who formed part of The Mangrove Finch ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. The Galápagos Islands, the archipelago associated with ...

When humans first began settling in the Galapagos Islands nearly two centuries ago, they brought house cats. Those cats hunted finches, scaring the small birds who were unused to the predator. A ...