It’s one of the most remote places on Earth, host to unique and abundant wildlife and perhaps offers the best big-game ...

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube The Galápagos Islands are renowned for their unique ecology and rich biodiversity. Isolated and remote, these islands are home to some of the most unique ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation—which holds that new species emerge in ...

Peter and Rosemary Grant would fare well on "Survivor."Living alone on a small, uninhabited island, communicating with the mainland only by radio and relying on a national park service's monthly ...

The Grants study the evolution of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands. The birds have been named for Darwin, in part, because he later theorized that the 13 distinct species were all ...

On the Galapagos Islands, a ground finch that usually munched on small, soft seeds was forced, during a drought, to eat harder, larger ones.

Peter Grant Has Documented Evolution in Action The evolutionary biologist spent decades tracking the development of finches in the Galápagos Islands as part of a husband-and-wife team.

Earlier studies on finches established that their beaks adapt to changes in their ecological environments, including habitat loss and drought.

INTRODUCTION THE land faunas of oceanic islands have always excited considerable evolutionary speculation, and, starting with the “Origin of Species”, the Geospizinæ, the endemic Galapagos ...

Vampire finches in the Galápagos Islands survive without fresh water by pecking seabirds until they bleed and then drinking their blood.

It’s extremely hard to find fresh water on these isolated islands, but booby blood is packed with hydration. Over time, natural selection favored finches with sharper, longer beaks.