Invasive parasites in the Galápagos Islands may leave some Darwin’s tree finches singing the blues. The nonnative Philornis downsi fly infests the birds’ nests and lays its eggs there. Fly larvae ...

Kiyoko Gotanda received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT), the British ...

Scientists are working hard to thwart a blood-sucking fly that is decimating populations of the charismatic finches that helped Charles Darwin formulate the theory of evolution. In a promising new ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...

In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin's finches drawn to junk food are experiencing changes in their gut microbiota and their body mass as compared to finches that don't encounter human food, according to ...

Ring the doorbell at Suzanne and Michael Woodford's Mesa house and the faint sound of chirping can be heard from the front step before the door is even opened. But it's not a mechanical chime or sound ...

The arrival 36 years ago of a strange bird to a remote island in the Galápagos archipelago has provided direct genetic evidence of a novel way in which new species arise. On Nov. 23 in the journal ...

The town mayor says the black swans and aviary birds are a "cherished symbol of Dawlish" Birds living in a Devon town aviary are set to be humanely culled after testing positive for bird flu, a ...

FRANKFORT, Ind. (WISH) — Frankfort’s petting zoo was cited with multiple violations, one critical and seven non-critical, by the US Department of Agriculture after over half of their birds died of ...

In the Galapagos Islands, Darwin's finches drawn to junk food are experiencing changes in their gut microbiota and their body mass as compared to finches that don't encounter human food, according to ...