The Galápagos finches that came to fame after their discovery by English naturalist Charles Darwin are under threat from a nasty parasite that has invaded their remote islands. The parasite ...

Darwin's finches, named for the British naturalist, are 14 species of birds that live on the Galapagos Islands, made up of 19 Pacific islands located about 600 miles (1,000 km) west of Ecuador.

Recent studies have revealed that behavioural innovation in Darwin’s finches, such as the adoption of feather-rubbing with extracts from endemic plants, may offer natural repellent effects ...

Ever since Darwin wrote about the finches of the Galápagos Islands, biologists have studied these small songbirds to understand the mechanisms of evolution. One ancestral species has evolved into 18 ...

The finches that Charles Darwin collected in the Galapagos Islands are considered textbook examples of how a single species differentiated into many to exploit different resources. Subtle changes in ...

So meticulous was this youth in his duties that his labelling of Darwin’s precious finches that showed they came from different islands and had, accordingly, different adaptations.

One can argue that metastatic cancer cells are analogous to Darwin's finches: they face a new and unknown environment with unique selection pressures and must adapt to survive. Different populations ...

We’ve all heard of Darwin’s journey to the islands on the HMS Beagle, and the finches that shaped his thinking, but in my mind nothing better symbolizes his theory of evolution than ...