One of the most famous dive sites in the world is Darwin's Arch, now collapsed due to erosion, and occasionally called Darwin's Pillars. The site is one of the best places in the world to encounter ...

The Darwin Arch, a natural rock in the Ecuadorean Province of Galapagos, has collapsed due to “natural erosion,” the Ministry of the Environment and Water reported late on Monday. “We inform ...

Indeed, the Galapagos have been called a living laboratory ... Scientists long after Darwin spent years trying to understand the process that had created so many types of finches that differed ...

A tall ship which recreated Charles Darwin's famous journey to the southern hemisphere is in the Galapagos Islands. The tall ship Oosterschelde left Plymouth, in Devon, in 2023. Darwin’s great ...

And in seeking to explain how various igneous rocks on one of the Galapagos Islands were related to each other, Darwin shed invaluable light on how magmas evolve. One of the exhibits tells us how ...

Discover the science behind natural selection and evolution. Get the facts on survival of the fittest with ExtremeTech’s ...

The scene could have looked and sounded the same when Charles Darwin sailed here almost two centuries ago. These creatures, fine-tuned to life on harsh isles, seemingly can weather anything ...

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best ...

In September 1835, the Beagle arrived in the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles from Ecuador. Darwin made detailed notes and collected lots of animals, plants, insects and reptiles. He noted that the ...

Six consecutive droughts is all it takes for a new species of finch to emerge in the Galapagos islands, scientists have said.

The waters surrounding the Galapagos islands teem with wildlife such as hammerhead sharks Conservationists have welcomed the announcement by Ecuador that it will expand the marine reserve around ...