The Galapagos cormorant last shared a common ancestor with flighted cormorants two million years ago, which is an incredibly short time in evolutionary terms. For comparison, ...

The Galapagos cormorant, with its short, scraggly wings, is the only one of 40 cormorant species that cannot fly. It is also the largest of the cormorants, and a strong swimmer that dives for its ...

Galapagos Islands Neighborhoods. ... the flightless cormorant and the mangrove finch) reside, and 16 kinds of whales, including humpbacks and orcas, are regularly spotted in its surrounding waters.