Nearly two centuries ago on a little archipelago off the Pacific coast of Ecuador, a 26-year-old Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle. The now famous scientist had spent three years sailing ...

In fact, the region is home to 45 types of marine birds and 22 land birds you won't see anywhere else (think: Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like ...

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 ...

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 ... Santa Cruz, Galapagos (airport ...

The scene could have looked and sounded the same when Charles Darwin sailed here almost two centuries ago. These creatures, fine-tuned to life on harsh isles, seemingly can weather anything ...

"Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," Darwin (c.1880) said of a future in which his hard-won findings would be tested. Bettmann / Corbis Charles Darwin was just 28 years old ...

On the "Aqua Mare" in the Galápagos, close encounters with the resident wildlife come with standard-setting luxury.

Cambridge University Library The tree of life sketch was central to developing Darwin's theory of evolution The notepads date from the late 1830s after Darwin had returned from the Galapagos Islands.

Nearly 200 years after Charles Darwin sailed through the Galapagos Islands on HMS Beagle, I boarded La Pinta, an expedition ship with 39 guests and 33 crew members — roughly the same soul count ...

Released alongside “Sea Lions of the Galapagos,” Disneynature’s ... that has yielded discoveries since before the age of Darwin.