In this case, he chose drought as the ecological ... an entirely new species of Darwin's medium ground finches could evolve in response to six major Galapagos droughts. "Our research is not ...

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 ...

Natural selection at its most powerful winnowed certain finches harshly during a severe drought in 1977. That year, the vegetation withered. Seeds of all kinds were scarce. The small, soft ones ...

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 ...

Their research has shown that natural selection is frequently at work in the Galápagos: After a drought, finches with larger beaks were able to eat tough seeds and survive; their offspring became ...

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 ...

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 ...