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.

"The alternative hypothesis is that it had never gone and that in the last 190 years simply, we were unable to observe it." ...

The islands are quite close together and they have similar landscapes, plants and animals. But if you look carefully, you can see that they’re not exactly the same. For example, the finches on ...

The Philadelphia Zoo has achieved a monumental milestone in its 150+ year history with the successful hatching of four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cruise line partnered with Galápagos National Park in 2014 on a reforestation project known as Rewilding Galápagos, which aimed to restore native vegetation and protect wildlife habitats.