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 big-beaked finches just happened to be the ones favored by the particular set of conditions Nature imposed that year. Now the next step: evolution. The Grants found that the offspring of the ...

Overall, there are about 15 closely related species of Darwin's finches. The video could be used as starter on a lesson on evolution, adaptation and natural selection, or as a part of a discussion on ...

One reason is that for years the iguanas were presumed, unlike Darwin’s famous Galápagos finches, to be fairly uniform across the islands, making the stakes for the animal lower even if one ...

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.

While actual road rage is primarily a human trait, some birds on the Galápagos Islands ... the Galápagos helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.

The birds of the Galapagos Islands gave Darwin some of his best evidence for evolution. Now some of those birds have evolved an extreme dislike of all the noise of this increasingly busy tourist ...