Scientists have recently uncovered a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field off the coast of the Galápagos Islands, aided ...

Staff at the Galapagos ... Galapagos islands were among the features which helped the British naturalist Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution. Some 20.000 giant tortoises of other ...

Giant tortoises lumber across the lava rocks ... wildlife that impressed Charles Darwin when he visited the Galápagos Islands in 1835—and that would later kindle his discovery of the process ...

In 2015, the Galapagos authorities announced the discovery of a new species of tortoise that they called Chelonoidis donfaustoi, named after Fausto Llerena, the park ranger who for 40 years looked ...

the Floreana giant tortoise and the Floreana mockingbird. People are only allowed to live in small areas of the islands because the wildlife and plants are protected. This is part of the ...

Far from the mainland and one another, the Galapágos Islands host animals with distinctive traits, such as the notched shell of Pinzón Island’s saddleback giant tortoise. Tui De Roy / Minden ...