Galapagos Islands

Waters off Galapagos coast under invasion by alien species from visiting boats

It isn't clear how these alien species will harm, or if they'll even affect, the Galapagos ecosystem.

Three newly identified snake species named after Charles Darwin, Green god of fire Hephaestus, American professor Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas, an environmental biologist and head of head of the Center for Environmental Communication at Loyola University, New Orleans, is being honoured by having one of three newly identified species of snakes from the Galapagos Islands named after him.

Researchers find direct evidence that new species can arise with just two generations

The findings are based on a study of a "strange" bird that arrived on a remote island in the Galapagos archipelago 36 years ago.