For the past 50 years, the Galapagos Islands have been at the heart of a restoration and conservation program.

Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found a giant tortoise from a species thought ... Darwin to write his landmark 1859 study on evolution, The Origin of Species. Ecuador's Environment ...

Among the animals enjoying the seasonal snack are the giant Galapagos tortoises. The six tortoises are named Phantom, Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Creature and Wolfman, and are known ...

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Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

A new genetic study could help saolas survive by enabling better searches through environmental DNA. But some experts fear they may be extinct already.

Belgian biotech Galapagos is mixing things up again via a plan to split in two, separating its innovative medicines and cell therapy businesses, which will result in the loss of around 300 jobs or ...

Genome evolution is the process by which a genome changes in structure over time, through mutation, horizontal gene transfer, and sexual reproduction. The study of genome evolution involves ...

May 28, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested ...

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time.