May 31

Why it only takes 30 minutes a day to add 5 years to your life
Unison.ie - Bray,Ireland
... How little of it can we get away with and still have the figure of a 20-year-old and the life expectancy of a Galapagos land turtle? ...

The Methuselah of the animal kingdom
Rock River Times - Rockford,IL,USA
In 1835, Charles Darwin's ship, the HMS Beagle on its five-year trip around the world, anchored in the Galapagos Islands for a stay of several weeks. ...

GoVisitGalapagos.com Launched: Discover the Amazing Galapagos...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Explore the Galapagos Islands with GoVisitGalapagos.com, a recently launched comprehensive website on these pristine islands often nicknamed the 'Laboratory' ...

May 30

Turtle Power
San Marcos Daily Record - San Marcos,TX,USA
... up. Barefoot and sipping iced tea, I read an intriguing item about a Galapagos tortoise at the Australia Zoo in Queensland. They ...

Lindblad Receives Honors for Sustainable Tourism Achievements in ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
To further honor the entrepreneur for his dedication to the conservation and environmental stewardship of the Galapagos archipelago, a new species of endemic ...

May 29

Mother Nature's theme park
Ottawa Sun - Ontario, Canada
GENOVESA ISLAND, The Galapagos-- We're so preoccupied with capturing the colourful fish life on our underwater camera, we nearly miss the sea lion that ...

Cruisin' the Galapagos
Canoe.ca - Canada
... sea lions," laughs our guide Carlos Cantos as we watch them surf, noting they came a long time ago from America and gradually evolved on the Galapagos. ...

See gators and more at area park
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
The park is home to albino American alligators, giant Galapagos tortoises, West African dwarf crocodiles and hundreds of other American alligators of all sizes ...

May 28

Full House
Boston Globe - United States
... In an e-mail from the Galapagos Islands, where he is doing field research, Sulloway wrote me: "If parents invest less in middle children, and there are more of ...

Tagging sharks a chilling task
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... after the float stopped moving we hauled up "in one gory gorgonian bundle: a complex tangle of twisted line with the head of one Galapagos shark, the ...
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May 26

Uniformity in diversity
Hindustan Times - India
... Similar transformations found in Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands also showed that the bird populations were diverging on similar lines. ...

May 25

Cruisers getting younger and bolder
Go Travel Insurance - London,UK
... The top emerging destinations were Asia and South America, with the Galapagos Islands specifically singled out by some respondents. ...

Reader e-mails are answered
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... One diver was surprised when he wasn't paying attention. He turned his head and found a big Galapagos shark watching him, just a couple of feet from his head! ...

May 23

Where in the World? Middle School Students Compete in Geography ...
ABC News - USA
May 23, 2006 Quick: The Galapagos are to Ecuador as the Cyclades are to what? You have 15 seconds. ... The Galapagos belong to Ecuador.

Humans May Have Limiting Effect on the Origin of (New) Species
New York Times - United States
... By contrast, large- and small-beak finches, middle, remain distinct in a remote, unsettled area of Santa Cruz, bottom, in the Galapagos. ...

May 21

Family expedition leads to a series of epiphanies
Miami Herald - FL,USA
A family discovers the Galapagos, a chain of more than 120 volcanic islands and islets 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador. BY DON GEORGE. ...

May 20

Island hopping
The South African Star (subscription) - Johannesburg,South Africa
The first words you hear as you enter the airport terminal on the Galapagos islands are: "Which sheep you on?" We soon realised that the "sheep" in question ...

May 17

The incredible shrinking iguana
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
So when ecologist Martin Wikelski of Princeton University noticed that the Galapagos marine iguanas he'd been studying for nearly 20 years seemed to be ...

Tortoise conservation:One of a kind
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
... All alone in the world and, sadly, singularly uninterested in sex, George the Galapagos giant tortoise looks set to be the last in his line. ...
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Call of the Wild
TheStreet.com - USA
Among luxury adventure destinations, Africa's game parks, Egypt's pyramids, Peru's Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands are classic picks.

May 16

Cruisin' the Galapagos
24 Hours Vancouver - Canada
The Galapagos - We're so preoccupied with capturing the colourful fish life on our underwater camera, we nearly miss the sea lion that swishes by like a torpedo ...

Theo Eastwind at Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
HotIndieNews.com - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... my calendar and headed (by subway, of course) to Brooklyn. Destination: Galapagos! And the first thing I noticed when I entered ...

Ask Sadie: Kids with Asperger's Disorder lack 'social intelligence ...
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... Show and tell - or not! "Jason" returned from an exotic trip to the Galapagos Islands. Yet he couldn't share spontaneous excitement or details. ...

We're all part of a wondrous whole
Economic Times - India
... Adwitiya's cousin, the Galapagos tortoise called Lonesome George, has been luckier. ... But the search for a Giant Galapagos Georgina hasn't been given up. ...

Radiant Floor Heating chosen for Perth Zoo
Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
Radiant Floor Heating Pty Ltd has recently supplied and installed in-slab electric floor heating for the Galapagos Tortoise enclosure at Perth Zoo. ...

May 14

Galapagos awe can strike anytime
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
The Galapagos Epiphany struck me after the other people in my walking tour had moved on and I was a temporary castaway on the island of Genovesa: Black-and ...

May 12

Young explorer gets trip of lifetime
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
... The Oak Grove Upper Elementary School fifth-grader will leave Saturday for a 10-day trek through the Galapagos Islands, as part of the first National ...

Travel Trouble Shooter: Passenger faces $1,000 charge after ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
QI recently booked a trip with Overseas Adventure Travel to the Amazon, Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands. Because I had to ...

The fire in Lonesome George's loins
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... world. He is believed to be the last surviving giant tortoise from the northernmost island of Pinta in the Galapagos archipelago. ...

May 11

Full Text
Science Magazine (subscription) - USA
... demonstrated that Charles Darwin was not converted to the principle of species transmutation until a year and a half after he visited the Galapagos, does his ...

Top diving holiday destinations
TravelBite.co.uk - London,UK
... Help is at hand, however, as diving holiday specialist Regaldive has compiled its list of the world's top diving destinations from Grenada to the Galapagos...

May 10

Orbitz: Cheap in More Ways Than One
BusinessWeek - USA
... been better, too. I'm researching a trip to the Galapagos Islands (who doesn't want to see 100-year-old tortoises?). When I sent ...

Orbitz: Cheap in more ways than one
HotelMarketing.com - USA
... been better, too. I'm researching a trip to the Galapagos Islands (who doesn't want to see 100-year-old tortoises?). When I ...

Oklahoma Teen Heads to Galapagos Islands
KSBI 52 - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... found out she had been chosen as one of 15 finalists --six boys and nine girls-- from across the country to take part in an expedition to the Galapagos Islands ...

May 9

Italian winning Italian Open? Very caldo ... er, hot
SI.com - USA
... national championship. Salud! No, she didn't move permanently to the Galapagos Islands, it only seemed that way. Now, with Hootie ...

BBC reveals its HD menu
Stuff Magazine - Teddington,UK
... you can then turn to the autumn menu of Hotel Babylon, Robin Hood, Planet Earth 2, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, The Chatterley Affair and Galapagos, which we ...

May 8

Darwinism Revisited
Raise the Hammer - Canada
... He drew this conclusion after discovering several new species of organisms on the Galapagos Islands, which were cut off from their distant kin on the mainland ...

Hattiesburg girl sets sail for Galapagos
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
When National Geographic Kids Expedition sets sail for the Galapagos Islands on Saturday, a Hattiesburg girl will be on board. Morgan ...

May 7

Running a few names up the political flagpole
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... Amy, what you gonna do? - If she doesn't run for Pope or become ambassador to the Galapagos, it's said Tuck might run for secretary of state, state auditor, or ...

How Darwin made a monkey out of me
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
... Some of his most important work was done in the Galapagos Islands, where he wrote about the differences in animals of the same species as he sailed from island ...

PROFILE ELLA BEAUDOIN
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... likes to explore this big oak tree in Theodore Wirth Park, she's going to have the opportunity to explore something a little more exotic: the Galapagos Islands ...

May 4

Of ice and men
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Genesis, his latest project, Salgado left the world of massed men for the "primeval places of the planet" - regions such as the Galapagos Islands, Antarctica ...
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'Darwin's finches' revert to type
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
A study of finches on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific — the same birds that were said to have inspired Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work on evolution ...

May 3

Photographer Salgado focuses on nature
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... of the epic Genesis project which has taken Salgado to what he calls the "primeval places of the planet" -- regions such as the Galapagos Islands, Antarctica ...

Girl Wins Contest, Heads To Famous Islands
WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA
(WCCO) It's a safe bet one young lady in Minneapolis knows where the Galapagos Islands are. After all, 11-year-old Ella Beaudoin ...

Darwin's finches show how man harms evolution
Independent - London,England,UK
... the birds that were said to have inspired Charles Darwin to formulate his theory of evolution more than 10 years after his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands ...

Presence of humans reverses evolution of finch
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... into reverse for one of the species of finches that is said to have inspired Charles Darwin after he returned from his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands. ...

May 2

Researchers get warm in quest to solve evolutionary mystery
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Scientists believe they have cracked one of the most enduring mysteries since Charles Darwin returned from the Galapagos islands: why is there such a variety ...

May 1