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 ...

On Floreana Island in the Galápagos, a bold conservation experiment is quietly rewriting the story of extinction. By removing ...

“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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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Scientists are discovering new species in all corners of the world—and in some cases, they’re stumbling upon old species in places they were previously thought to be extinct. One of the latest ...