Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Darwin's finch nestlings are pictured in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/Sarah A. Knutie/Handout By Will Dunham WASHINGTON ...

For more than four decades, the husband and wife team of Peter and Rosemary Grant travelled to the isolated Galapagos archipelago to watch evolution unfold in front of them. They were studying some of ...

The Critically Endangered Galápagos mangrove finch has had its most successful breeding season on record, with 25 fledglings ...

Invasive parasites in the Galápagos Islands may leave some Darwin’s tree finches singing the blues. The nonnative Philornis downsi fly infests the birds’ nests and lays its eggs there. Fly larvae ...

Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Islands are once again providing insights into the theory of evolution, with two studies investigating their dealings with the parasitic avian vampire fly (Philornis ...

When Charles Darwin watched his famous finches flit about the craggy cliffs and lush forests of the Galapagos, he observed that something essential was at work in this remote part of the Pacific — ...

Galapagos finches are known for their wondrous diversity of beak shapes. Their variety of bills are remarkably well adapted to their different feeding habits, which range from cracking seeds to ...

Bringing home fellas that look just like dad might be a red flag to some. But for Galápagos finches, a pairing like this might just do papa proud. ByKatherine J. Wu Monday, October 22, 2018 NOVA ...

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One group of finches on Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos may become a new textbook example of the way in which two species emerge from one while still living together. Early ideas for explaining how ...

A simple intervention can help Galapagos finches to stave off an insidious parasite. Offered insecticide-soaked cotton, birds from four finch species wove it into their nests and effectively stamped ...

Wide, slender, pointed, blunt: The many flavors of beak sported by the finches that flit about the remote Galápagos Islands were an important clue to Darwin that species might change their traits over ...