People refer to "Darwin's finches" from time to time as a symbol of evolution in the Galapagos Islands, but the father of evolutionary theory actually dropped the ball on those birds, collecting ...

Already a subscriber? Log in More than 150 years after Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution by natural selection, the birds that helped shape his thinking are still actively evolving.

On the Galapagos Islands, a ground finch that usually munched on small ... along with other animals on the islands, inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and, 150 years later, allowed ...

These birds are collectively known as Darwin’s finches because they helped British naturalist Charles Darwin uncover the process of evolution by natural selection. Researchers have found that ...

and identify hundreds of small birds and record their diets of seeds. But for the Grants, the rewards have been great: They have done nothing less than witness Darwin's theory of evolution unfold ...

The mating song of a male Darwin's medium ground finch. Credit: Jeff Podos He knew, for instance, that beaks can either evolve powerfully to crush hard seeds or they can remain more delicate ...

In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and ...

In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s song. But something’s not quite right. The song is slower and deeper, like a ...

The finches that call Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands home are biological rock stars, as they provided a key piece of evidence for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. One reason for this is how ...