So the birds that were the winners in the game of natural selection lived to reproduce. The big-beaked finches just happened to be the ones favored by the particular set of conditions Nature ...

The same diverse array of Galápagos finch species that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution have now assisted in another discovery, this time relating to the genetic basis for the ...

They drink the blood of larger birds, such as the Nazca and red-footed boobies, to supplement their diet when food is scarce ...

For example, the cactus finch has a long beak that reaches into blossoms, the ground finch has a short beak adapted for eating seeds buried under the soil, and the tree finch has a parrot-shaped ...

As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording cage, the little gray bird bites my finger with its thick red bill ... the tiny-beaked Green Warbler-finch and the ...