and identify hundreds of small birds and record their diets of seeds. But for the Grants, the rewards have been great: They have done nothing less than witness Darwin's theory of evolution unfold ...

This morning came the talk that everyone had been waiting for - Princeton professors Peter and Rosemary Grant presented their 33-year project on the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches on the ...

"In my very first publication on the finches, back in 2001, I showed that changes in the beaks of Darwin's finches lead to changes in the songs they sing, and I speculated that, because Darwin's ...

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 ...

Caption Darwin noted how different finches from the Galapagos Island developed different kinds of beaks, based on the food that they specialized in eating. Later studies showed how rapid ...

Darwin's Finches These drab but famous little birds of the Galapagos Islands are a living case study in evolution. Isolated in the South Pacific, they have developed 14 species from a common ancestor ...

Early in January, Darwin gives a group of poorly labeled birds collected in the Galapagos to John Gould at London's Zoological Society. Gould is one of several renowned naturalists eager to look ...

As the legend goes, Darwin sailed as ship's naturalist on the Beagle, visited the Galápagos archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and there beheld giant tortoises and finches. The finches ...