So far the animals and plants of the Galápagos have managed to survive this precarious balance. But the insults may be coming too fast and from too many angles to give them a chance to adapt.

It's "almost unable to fly" and lives in deep vegetation, so it is hard to see. Its home is on Floreana Island, the largest ...

Today, tourists visit the islands to see the dramatic landscapes - volcanoes, beautiful coastlines and coral reefs - as well as the wildlife and plants. My great, great, great uncle Edwin was part ...

The lizards likely reached the islands by hitching a ride on logs, vegetation or other debris, and diverged from their terrestrial cousins some 4.5 million years ago. Javier Aznar González Rueda ...

Scientists think that's how iguanas got to the Galapagos Islands off of Ecuador ... resisting dehydration and could have snacked on the plants underfoot. “If you had to pick a vertebrate to ...

The plants and animals that dwell there today are descended from castaways that arrived by sea or air. Finches and mockingbirds were blown off course by storms; iguanas floated on rafts of debris ...

But, overall, the archipelago is home to more than 9,000 species of plants and animals, many of which are uniquely adapted to ...

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 8,000km (5,000-mile) odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation ... iguanas got to the Galapagos Islands off of ...

“You get the chance to see some plants and animals that exist only in that part of the world. You develop the mindset of a biologist through observations while hiking, biking, snorkeling, kayaking, ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long distance ...