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 ...

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 ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

Several Galápagos tortoise species and subspecies have gone extinct. There are 13 different species of Galápagos ... Zoo’s director of herpetology and birds, said it took a lot of hard work ...

On his visit to the islands in 1835, Charles Darwin noticed the slight differences between the same types of animal on ... For example, the finches on one island have pointy beaks for catching ...

Banner image of a Galapagos ... birds that we once thought were lost will start to reappear again,” Cruz added. The project ...

Mommy is now one of the most genetically valuable tortoises in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ (AZA) Species Survival ... of a thriving population of Galapagos tortoises on our healthy ...