There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands ... In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original ...

The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and his colleagues during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-1836). The different finch species on ...

Some of Darwin’s finches lie arranged around an assortment of local seeds at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Isla Santa Cruz. Climatic extremes are the norm in the Galápagos. Birds that ...

The journey of young Charles ... Darwin sailed as ship's naturalist on the Beagle, visited the Galápagos archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and there beheld giant tortoises and finches.

To biologists, a trip to the Galápagos is something of a pilgrimage to sacred evolutionary ground, for it is here in 1835 that Charles Darwin witnessed how giant tortoises, finches ... Santa Cruz, ...

William Perlman / Star Ledger / Corbis Charles Darwin's study of finches is "more complicated than anyone thought." Granger Collection, New York An 1890-illustration of the H.M.S. Beagle carrying ...

The Galápagos Islands served as the site of Charles Darwin's famous ... birds you won't see anywhere else (think: Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species ...

However, it was Gould that recognised that the finches were closely related ... Blackbird collected by Captain FitzRoy Type specimens of Galapagos mockingbirds, collected by Charles Darwin in 1835. A ...

Expedition yacht La Pinta brings the iconic wildlife, natural wonders and ecological warnings of the Galapagos into view.

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... as the shape of their beaks varied. On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed how the beaks of finches differed. Only later, would he realise why this ...

The Galapagos gives you quite a welcome. Perhaps one of Ecuador’s most astonishing achievements is its preservation of these islands. You really do see them as Charles Darwin did, when he ...