A new study has discovered that birds in the Galápagos Islands are changing their behavior due to traffic noise, with those frequently exposed to vehicles showing heightened levels of aggression.

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SALT LAKE CITY – Students at the University of Utah have discovered a method that will allow endangered birds to protect their young from deadly parasites. A research group from the school was in the ...

Galapagos finches are known for their wondrous diversity of beak shapes. Their variety of bills are remarkably well adapted to their different feeding habits, which range from cracking seeds to ...

When Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos archipelago, the vast bird diversity he observed helped crystallize his fledgling theories about the origin of species. Small differences among islands meant ...

The Galápagos Islands served as the site of Charles Darwin's famous flora and fauna observations and the inspiration behind his groundbreaking "On the Origin of Species," so it's hardly surprising ...

From 2010 to 2013, Anna Traveset of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies in Esporles, Spain, and colleagues visited 12 of the Galapagos’ largest islands during February and March, the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A critically-endangered bird is making a comeback on the Galapagos ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of colorful songbird in the Galápagos Islands, with one catch: it's extinct. Researchers used molecular data from samples of museum specimens to determine that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Birds use song during territorial defence as an aggressive signal,” Caglar Akcay, a study co-author and behavioral ecologist at ...