If the whole book could be a single picture ... whose extensive work on the Galapagos finches paved the way for his later famous thoughts on evolution. Padel, evolved as she is from this ...

Simon Calder answers your questions on fare quote urban myths, dodging the 90-day Schengen rule, escaping Singapore, and ...

Books such as Charles Lyell's recently ... Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds there, although not in enough detail to ...

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That's what the findings of new research on a common backyard bird, the house finch, imply. A groundbreaking pangenomic study has revealed a major DNA flip that appears to have made the small bird ...

Anyone who has finches in their garden has been issued an urgent warning about a disease that is ripping through wildlife like wildfire this winter. Households are being urged to take action now ...

Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. By Alexandra Alter When Andy Hunter ...

By Marjoleine Kars A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. Paul Fussell’s ...

Red-lipped batfish are also considered a species of Least Concern by the IUCN and have no known specific threats, although the Galapagos Conservation Trust says that "rising sea temperatures and ...

In fact, the region is home to 45 types of marine birds and 22 land birds you won't see anywhere else (think: Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like ...

Paul Stoffels' retirement at the end of last year after nine years as head of R&D at Johnson & Johnson was short lived – he's just been named chef executive of Galapagos. Stoffels will take the ...