See the islands' most famous residents up close Many of the birds, reptiles, and mammals found on the Galápagos Islands are endemic, meaning they can't be found anywhere else in the world ...

The tallest mountain in the Galápagos Islands was erupting on Friday, spewing lava down its flanks and clouds of ash over the Pacific Ocean, according to Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute. A ...

The Galápagos Islands are a province of Ecuador, about 600 miles off the county’s west coast. Facebook Translate was used to translate the Facebook post from the Parque Nacional Galápagos.

The islands are a province of Ecuador, which let the United States set up a military base on one, Baltra Island, during World War Two due to its strategic location southwest of the Panama Canal.