The Galápagos rail (Laterallus spilonota), a small, elusive bird once believed extinct on Floreana Island, has been spotted again for the first time since Charles Darwin’s visit in 1835. This ...

A new survival thriller called Eden is set to hit theaters this year, and it’s already gaining attention. Directed by Ron Howard and written by Noah Pink, the movie tells the true story of European ...

If you go to Floreana Island, in the Galapagos, you can still see descendants of the giant tortoises that Darwin documented in the 19th century when he visited these islands. From the dock, just ...

Whether the birds escaped to other nearby islands, or had been hiding on Floreana the whole time is not known. Researchers will next use genetic sampling to determine whether these newly recorded ...

This heightened aggression was observed even on Floreana, where only 10 vehicles are present, suggesting that even minimal noise ruffled feathers.

There’s no post office quite like the one on the remote island of Floreana in the Galapagos. Thousands of pieces of correspondence a year are sent from this outpost, making their way around the ...

The Floreana tortoise is crucial for helping to restore the island ecosystem, explains Linda Cayot, science advisor at the Galapagos Conservancy explains.

The lineage of giant tortoise from the island of Floreana was one of the first permanent casualties. It was extinct by 1835, just 15 years after a certain Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos.

Weighing in at 380 pounds, H-2 is one of 32 giant tortoises retrieved last month during a $500,000 expedition that could be key to resurrecting two extinct species, the Floreana and the Pinta.

Sydney Sweeney takes on the real-life role of Margret Wittmer, a young pregnant German settler who moved to Floreana Island in the Galápagos archipelago in 1932 with her husband, Heinz (Daniel ...

Genetic analysis of 150 saddleback tortoises (144 from Wolf Volcano and six already residing in the Tortoise Center in Santa Cruz) identified 127 with varying levels of ancestry from the Floreana ...