Jun 29

STRANGE BUT TRUE- Dodo DNA: Extinct but still cooing
The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA
Too much trust maybe, but why wouldn't it have become trusting on the Galapagos archipelago, where it had had no natural enemies for thousands of years...

Jun 28

The Associated Press reported Harriet, a 176-year-old giant ...
Tiger Weekly - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
The story reports that Harriet might have been one of the three tortoises Charles Darwin took from the Galapagos Islands during his voyage aboard the HMS ...

Happy Birthday Methuselah: South Dakotaâs Oldest Resident Turns ...
Men's News Daily - Guerneville,CA,USA
... crocodiles, snakes and tortoises. Its best known resident, a Galapagos tortoise named Methuselah, turned 125 this month.

Jun 27

Flynn is In, Again
KEYT - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
PORT ANTONIO -- Errol Flynn's love affair with Port Antonio began in the 1940s while he was on a sailing trip destined for the Galapagos.
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Jun 26

Old Dogs, New Adventures
Sun Valley Online.com (press release) - Hailey,ID,USA
Our next major destination was the Galapagos Islands. To sum up the Galapagos, every one of us wished to stay there longer.

Irwin selects a natural burial for Harriet
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
STEVE Irwin has angered the family of an eminent naturalist with his plan to bury Harriet, a Galapagos tortoise claimed to have been the world's oldest living ...
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Jun 25

'Darwin's tortoise' dies at age 176
Times of India - India
The giant tortoise, known as Harriet, was long reputed to have been one of three tortoises taken from the Galapagos Islands by Darwin on his historic 1835 ...
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In England, Ecuador Is Absolutely a Foreign Affair
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
LONDON — Had England played Germany, as was possible for this round of 16, the hype might've rattled even ancient turtles on the Galapagos.

Scientists hope to recreate the 'Big Bang'
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador - International scientists will recreate the immediate aftermath of the "Big Bang" in a bid to uncover the mysteries of the universe ...
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Oldest known creature tortoise Harriet dies at '175'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
As the oldest-known living creature in the world, the giant Galapagos tortoise was thought to have been born in 1830.
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In praise of... Ecuador
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Coach Luis Fernando Suarez is a Colombian but his boys hail from a land that includes Pacific beaches, Amazonian rain forests and the Galapagos Islands made ...

Jun 20

Exploring Galapagos
Kodiak Daily Mirror - Kodiak,AK,USA
Ask 13-year-old Gregory Dalia about the most memorable part of his 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands and he doesn't hesitate. ...

Waves Destroy Central American Homes
CBS News - USA
... were caused by a strong South Pacific storm that was sending up to 12-foot swells across the Pacific, affecting coastlines from Ecuador's Galapagos Islands to ...
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Galapagos Girl
Charleston Post Courier (subscription) - Charleston,SC,USA
... Island kept a journal of her trip with her mom, Erene, and the National Geographic Society's Everyday Explorer Kids Expedition to the Galapagos Islands in May. ...

Jun 13

Summer Is Adventure Time for Families
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... creatures. Snorkel with playful sea lions, walk amongst blue-footed boobies, and relax close to the famed Galapagos tortoise. Soak ...
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Jun 11

Chichester gallery reopens
Europe Travel News - Dublin,Ireland
... last four... Unique Galapagos Charter: Join Discover the World and a guest lecturer from the Galapagos Conservation Trust for an...

Dinosaurs of the deep
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
By Carl Safina. At the Charles Darwin Research Station, on the Galapagos island of Santa Cruz, I once glimpsed a rare monarch. There ...

World-Take us seriously, says Ecaudor's Tenorio
Reuters.uk - UK
BAD KISSINGEN, Germany, June 11 (Reuters) - Forget its volcanoes, Andean peaks and the Galapagos Islands, the world will know Ecuador for its football after ...

Jun 8

HP nearly goes ASP
Register - London, England, UK
... they are not. Codefarm's tool is called Galapagos - because it is based on techniques known as Evolutionary Computing. In essence ...

Jun 7

1,000 Ecuadorians Get Free Eye Surgery
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... from the Venezuelan Embassy in Quito reports that patients from Quito, Salinas, Guayaquil, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados, and the Galapagos Islands were ...

Gecko's ventures into the Galapagos
e-Travel Blackboard - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Geckos Adventures is expanding its South America program to include cruise itineraries in the Galapagos Islands....

Jun 6

In Darwin's Footsteps
Johns Hopkins Magazine - Baltimore,MD,USA
Charlie Stine, SPH '76 (PhD), A&S '83 (MA), dreamed for decades of making a pilgrimage to the Galapagos Islands. What does an ecologist ...

Jun 5

Identity theft: The most fiendish crime known to man
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
... In my spare time, I devoted myself to my hobby of breeding and raising Galapagos turtles. Life was good -- I was happy. And then it happened! ...