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Galapagos Basics: Islands, Boats and Landings Explained

The Galapagos Islands sit nearly 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, and the archipelago includes 13 major islands, six smaller ones, and more than 40 islets, most of which are uni...

Finch Bay Hotel / Alfredo Ribadeneira Arquitectos

The Galápagos Islands are inseparable from the history of evolution. Charles Darwin's observations of their extraordinary biodiversity helped shape the ideas that would later contr...

New Galápagos Atlas charts the islands’ biodiversity and the mysteries that remain

A new atlas of biodiversity of the Galápagos Islands highlights the unique evolutionary and ecological diversity of life in the famed archipelago that helped Charles Darwin develop...

A Galápagos Hotel Adds Guest Rooms Among Trees and Volcanic Rock

A broad timber roof stretches above the trees, with shaded terraces looking out across dense greenery and volcanic rock. This is the latest addition to Finch Bay Galápagos Hotel, d...

Scientists Tracked Galápagos Sea Turtles for Years – What They Found Was Unexpected

Sea turtles are built for epic ocean journeys, yet some in the Galápagos rarely venture beyond their island neighborhood. Sea turtles are renowned for long migrations between feedi...

PoPville T-Shirts Continue to Travel the Globe/Hawks Around Town Mashup – Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

Thanks to Mark for sending this super cool shot from the Galapago Islands!! If you get a photo with any of your shirt/merch on your travels – please send a […]

Scientists expected these Galápagos sea turtles to wander. They stayed put

Yellow-morph green sea turtles in the Galápagos surprised scientists by staying remarkably close to home instead of making the long journeys typically associated with sea turtles....

Degraded DNA reveals two extinct Galapagos giant tortoise lineages

Using a new combination of computational tools to analyze ancient DNA, Yale researchers have discovered two ancient, extinct giant tortoise lineages that once lived on the Galapago...

Galapagos sea lions are the smallest sea lion species

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What Was the Last Island Discovered on Earth?

Galápagos: The Last Eden Is An Android XR Interactive Wildlife Experience

Galápagos: The Last Eden is an hour-long interactive Android XR experience made in collaboration with Google and narrated by Margot Robbie.

Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island

Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programmeA survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise populati...

Scientists Bring a Galápagos Plant Back From the Brink of Extinction

The Galápagos snapdragon, once close to disappearing, is showing encouraging signs of recovery through a long-term partnership between the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápag...

Nearly Destroyed DNA Reveals Two Extinct Giant Tortoise Lineages

Using a new computational toolkit, Yale researchers recovered evolutionary clues from highly degraded DNA and identified two extinct lineages of giant tortoises. Some Galapagos gia...