NOTE: Due to technical problems, no articles are available for July 26 to July 31

Jul 23

The jerk at work
Boston Globe - United States
... ''You used to have to order classroom films and they would take a year to come," says Roht. She was waiting for a film on the Galapagos Islands. Where was it? ...

Isle of dreams
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
... 4 on the magazine's best-island list, Cape Breton topped Maine's Mount Desert Island, Tasmania, the Galapagos, Greece's Santorini and Thailand's Phuket.

Jul 20

Finches on Galapagos Islands evolving
Pierceland Herald - Pierceland,Sasketchewan,Canada
WASHINGTON - Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it—by evolving.

Finches on Galapagos Islands Evolving
ABC News - USA
Little finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it—by evolving.

Jul 19

BSoUP Meeting
Dive Magazine - Surrey, UK
... equipment from the first Live outside broadcast to 'The Blue Planet' and will include the amazing High Definition technique for 'Planet Earth' and 'Galapagos'.
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Jul 18

Galapagos finches are doing Darwin proud
Chicago Tribune - United States
WASHINGTON — Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it--by evolving.

Study: Darwin's Finches Rapidly Evolving
MacNewsWorld - Encino,CA, USA
The species of finch studied by Charles Darwin more than a century ago is showing signs of evolution on the Galapagos Islands, with changes observed in the ...

Jul 17

Darwin's finches evolving fast
ABC Science Online - Australia
A Galapagos finch that helped reveal the origins of species to Charles Darwin has now undergone a spurt of rapid climate-driven evolution, biologists report.

Darwin's finches seen as still changing today
Boston Globe - United States
If you're watching some of the finches Charles Darwin famously observed on the Galapagos Islands, all you need is a good pair of binoculars, a bit of luck, and ...

Galapagos finches evolved as their food changed
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
WASHINGTON â Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop a concept of evolution are helping confirm it.

Jul 15

Finch Beaks Say Darwin Was Right
Los Angeles Times - CA, USA
Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolution by observing finches on the Galapagos Islands and speculating how each type developed distinct characteristics ...

NE Ohioan travels the world on the high seas
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
She has snorkeled next to sea lions in the Galapagos, watched elephants while on safari in South Africa and visited the islands where Napoleon was exiled and ...

Natural Selection: Still Going Strong
Blogcritics.org - Aurora, OH, USA
... That was more or less the theory Darwin put forward after his infamous voyage on the HMS Beagle took him to the Galapagos Islands. ...

SEMINAR SMORGASBORD
Harvard Crimson - Cambridge,MA,USA
Freshman Seminar 23g, "Darwin's Finches": Two years ago participants spent Winter Vacation on an all-expenses paid trip to the Galapagos.

"Instant" Evolution Seen in Darwin's Finches, Study Says
National Geographic - Washington, DC, USA
Evolution may sometimes happen so fast that it's hard to catch in action, a new study of Galapagos finches suggests. Researchers ...

TALKERS Darwin must be soooo proud; Galapagos Islands finches keep ...
Kansas City Star - MO, USA
Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it...
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Photographer Inouye captures Galapagos' animals in living color
Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima, WA, USA
It looks as if photographer Robert Inouye took a time machine, rather than a small panga boat, to the exotic Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Jul 13

Evolution caught in the act
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
Competition between two species of finch in the Galapagos has caused the beak size of one species to shrink, and scientists have watched it happen.

Real-Time Evolution Seen Among Darwin's Galapagos Finches
FOX News - USA
journal Science. The finch once had its own kingdom on the Galapagos island of Daphne Major. It had its pick of seeds to eat.
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Jul 12

Tall stories and the twisted history of science
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
I was saddened to hear of the death last month of Harriet, the giant tortoise that Charles Darwin reputedly collected from the Galapagos Islands in 1835.

Jul 11

Around the world in 240 days — free
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
In between, the Galapagos Islands, Kenya, Turkey — but who knows? She said she was inspired by reading Darwin to visit the Galapagos Islands.

Big Dinosaurs Got Very Hot, Study Suggests
FOX News - USA
A third hypothesis is that similar to modern-day alligators, Galapagos tortoises and Komodo dragons, large dinosaurs relied on a process called thermal inertia...
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Jul 10

Big Dinosaurs Were Hot, Study Suggests
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
A third hypothesis is that similar to modern day alligators, Galapagos tortoises, and Komodo dragons, large dinosaurs relied on a process called thermal ...
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British Submarine Carrying Rich Russians Seized at Galapagos ...
MOSNEWS - Russia
British-owned mini-sub hired by the group of rich Russians for an exclusive voyage through the waters of the Galapagos Islands — the climax of their luxury...

Jul 9

We're all arrested in a mini-submarine as Galapagos trip takes a dive
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
For the small group of rich Russians, an exclusive voyage through the Galapagos Islands in a mini-submarine should have been the climax of their luxury yacht ...

Ecuador & Panama. Megayacht Constellation seized after illegal ...
BYM News (press release) - Gibraltar,Spain
following an incident in which a vessel carrying a mini-submarine was impounded and its crew jailed, for illegal underwater exploration in the Galapagos Islands ...

Human Sharks?
FirstScience.com - UK
... The growing demand for shark fins could be damaging the fragile ecosystem
in the Galapagos Islands, from where sharks are often obtained. ...
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29-year-old quit his job and, a videocam in hand, danced his way ...
Winston-Salem Journal (subscription) - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... wacky, exuberant dance in front of places and people in Peru, Jordan,
Tokyo, Australia, Laos, Brunei - even in front of turtles on the Galapagos
Islands and ...

Jul 5

Sub crew sunk by island law
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
QUITO: Two Britons have been detained for illegally piloting a tiny tourist
submarine into the protected waters of the Galapagos Islands, officials
of the ...

Couple experiences naturalist's paradise
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA
GRANBY - A Taylor Street couple recently took a trip to the Galapagos Islands
that allowed them to get within feet of such rare wildlife as a sleeping
sea lion ...

Jul 4

Tourist submarine detained in Galapagos Islands
Reuters.uk - UK
Reuters) - Two Britons have been detained for illegally piloting a tiny tourist submarine into the protected waters of the Galapagos Islands...