In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and ...

and identify hundreds of small birds and record their diets of seeds. But for the Grants, the rewards have been great: They have done nothing less than witness Darwin's theory of evolution unfold ...

The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and his colleagues during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-1836). The different finch species on ...

Darwin noted how different finches from the Galapagos Island developed different kinds of beaks, based on the food that they specialized in eating. Later studies showed how rapid fluctuations in ...

These birds are collectively known as Darwin’s finches because they helped British naturalist Charles Darwin uncover the ...