"We know relatively little about the adaptations and social dynamics of animals that rely on these resources." Researchers ...

The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers ...

In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and ...

The journey of young Charles Darwin ... didn't take the form of a bird's beak. It wasn't even a living creature. It was a trove of fossils. Never mind the notion of Darwin's finches.

To illustrate his theory, Darwin bred the birds to have exaggerated features. Original line drawing of an English Pouter pigeon from the book Variation in Animals and Plants under Domestication by ...

Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin ... would make a discovery that has led inexorably to the triumphant vindication of almost everything Darwin deduced about evolution.

Although O.C. Marsh and Charles Darwin lived on separate ... But with the discovery of Equus parvulus and other fossils, including a bird with teeth, there was sufficient evidence to support ...

It was the Peabody that led the great age of paleontological discovery in ... for the fossil mammal and bird discoveries that most visitors miss, but which Charles Darwin himself considered ...

Galapagos Crake has been recorded on the Galápagos island of Floreana for the first time in 190 years. The elusive rallid was ...

Charles Darwin was born in ... differences between the finches (a type of bird), as the shape of their beaks varied. On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed how the beaks of finches differed.

To illustrate his theory, Darwin bred the birds to have exaggerated features. Original line drawing of an English Pouter pigeon from the book Variation in Animals and Plants under Domestication by ...