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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Galápagos Islands are renowned for their unique biodiversity, particularly the famous Darwin's finches, which have become a symbol of evolution and natural selection. However, these endemic ...

One of Charles Darwin's famous 14 finches — the island-dwelling bird species that helped inspire the theory of evolution — the medium tree finch is found only on Floreana, one of the nine major ...

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

Charles Darwin's observations of Galápagos finches led him to develop his theory of natural selection. (By coincidence Dr Bell passed his A-Levels at Darwin's alma mater Shrewsbury School.) ...

But if you look carefully, you can see that they’re not exactly the same. For example, the finches on one island have pointy beaks for catching insects. But a similar finch on another island has ...