How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

A global database documenting the location of critical habitats for sharks, rays, and chimeras has recently expanded to ...

A tiny black bird was spotted on a Galápagos island for the first time in nearly 200 years — when Charles Darwin first discovered it. The Galápagos Rail, considered a near-endangered species, has ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...

For more than a century and a half, researchers interested in invasive species have looked to Charles Darwin and his “naturalization conundrum” to help explain why some species have an easier time ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

Charles Darwin is most famous for his idea of evolution. He said that species, including human beings, were part of ...

Males of the South American species incubate their young in their vocal sacs. The London Zoo recently established a breeding colony to save the frog from extinction. By Franz Lidz The folk song “Frog ...