Scientists are working hard to thwart a blood-sucking fly that is decimating populations of the charismatic finches that helped Charles Darwin formulate the theory of evolution. In a promising new ...

Famously studied by Charles Darwin, the Galápagos Islands lie in the Pacific Ocean 600 miles west of Ecuador. They are rich in biodiversity and home to some extraordinary animals that have evolved in ...

The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent. Galápagos wildlife arrived by flying, floating or swimming. Birds might have flown there by accident and decided to settle ...

Plants in the genus Scalesia have evolved adaptive traits multiple times, but not always using the same genes. The photo shows the serrated leaves of Scalesia affinis (radiate-headed scalesia). The ...

When Charles Darwin first stepped onto the volcanic shores of the Galapagos, he saw a laboratory of life. But even Darwin might have done a double-take at the Vampire Ground Finch – a tiny, unassuming ...

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 have ...

Register your interest for 2028 and we will contact you when confirmed details including finalised dates and prices are available. Discover the unparalleled biodiversity of the Galapagos Islands, a ...

Speciation, adaptive radiation, and evolution -- Daphne finches : a question of size -- Heritable variation -- Natural selection and evolution -- Breeding ecology and fitness -- A potential competitor ...