Plastic pollution, from the Great Pacific garbage patch to plastic showing up in the food chain, is known to be a major problem. Researchers have now found that even in pristine environments like the ...

“Please avoid stepping on the marine iguanas,” Ivan, my naturalist guide for the afternoon, quietly whispered to me. I was so busy taking photographs of a family of blue-footed boobies – the mother ...

SITUATED in the Pacific Ocean on the Equator, some 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands are rightly called the Enchanted Isles. If ever there was a good place to forget about ...

Scientists are discovering new species in all corners of the world—and in some cases, they’re stumbling upon old species in places they were previously thought to be extinct. One of the latest ...

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS - Sea lions gambol and glide around me as I snorkel in the Galapagos Islands, where wild creatures have curiously lost their fear of humans. There is an Edenic innocence everywhere.

A bird species never before seen on the islands has also been discovered. Two species that were previously extinct on the Galapagos Islands have reappeared a decade after an invasive predator ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - The University of Minnesota Raptor Center will head to the Galapagos island of Pinzón next week in a continuing effort to help the endangered Pinzón giant tortoises and hawks. The ...

The Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis spp.) captivates biologists and conservationists alike, and so it should come as no surprise that scientists enjoy observing and learning more about the ...

Just south of Galapagos' Marchena Island is a dive spot known by locals as the "fish arena," where colorful fish, like these rainbow runners, swim in large schools. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) ...