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These little differences have been caused by the way the animals have adapted to live on the islands over many years. This was something that Charles Darwin noticed on his famous expedition to the ...

He said that since 1906, scant but compelling evidence has hinted that giant tortoises might still live on Fernandina Island, an active volcano on the western edge of the Galápagos Archipelago ...

In today’s fast-changing world, where species are constantly evolving and many are disappearing, it’s fascinating to learn ...

with the easternmost islands' animals showing rounder, domed shells, and the westernmost island — Fernandina — home to tortoises with the most dramatic saddlebacking. The domed tortoises live in more ...

Giant Galapagos tortoises are among the animals featured in the Galapagos Islands exhibit at the Houston ... to oceans and the species that live in them. Ehmke said the idea behind it is that ...

More than a decade ago, P. Dee Boersma used crowbars and hammers to chisel a small hole out of lava on the Galápagos Islands, hoping to attract one of the world’s rarest penguins. Five months ...

Alper Yelimlies The Galápagos Islands are famous for their pristine, natural ecosystems. But even on this remote and mostly undeveloped archipelago, human activity is affecting animals.

The islands, nicknamed a “living museum,” are home to many rare or endangered plants and animals. Only some 30,000 people live on one of the Galapagos islands, but about 170,000 tourists visit ...