“Please avoid stepping on the marine iguanas,” Ivan, my naturalist guide for the afternoon, quietly whispered to me. I was so busy taking photographs of a family of blue-footed boobies – the mother ...

SITUATED in the Pacific Ocean on the Equator, some 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands are rightly called the Enchanted Isles. If ever there was a good place to forget about ...

The Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis spp.) captivates biologists and conservationists alike, and so it should come as no surprise that scientists enjoy observing and learning more about the ...

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS - Sea lions gambol and glide around me as I snorkel in the Galapagos Islands, where wild creatures have curiously lost their fear of humans. There is an Edenic innocence everywhere.

Plastic pollution, from the Great Pacific garbage patch to plastic showing up in the food chain, is known to be a major problem. Researchers have now found that even in pristine environments like the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - The University of Minnesota Raptor Center will head to the Galapagos island of Pinzón next week in a continuing effort to help the endangered Pinzón giant tortoises and hawks. The ...

The Galapagos Islands are home to many animal species found nowhere else in the world. Situated roughly 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, this archipelago of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean ...

In celebration of the bicentennial anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, Forbes explores why 13 animals native to the Galapagos Islands where he researched are extraordinary--that is, ...

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