The Galapagos is no place for a mammal. But it's a great place to be a reptile. Land animals had to make the trip here via rafts of vegetation that broke loose from the mainland, which isn't so bad if ...

La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina island, one of the youngest in the archipelago, began erupting Sunday evening, Galapagos National Park (PNG) officials said in a statement. The 1,467 metre high (4,813 ...

Every journey is a quest of sorts, though few travellers have an inkling of what it is they’re questing for – unless they set ...

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Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long-distance ...

Ecuador is a remarkably biodiverse country, home to two of the world’s most captivating natural sites: the Galapagos Islands and a large portion of the Amazon. An ‘avenue’ of volcanoes, large areas of ...

Just as evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin filled his journals with observations and sketches from the Galápagos Islands nearly two centuries ago, 16 Kennedy College of Sciences students kept field ...

A volcano in the Galapagos Islands whose fiery eruption raised fears for the world's only population of pink iguanas has calmed, sparing the unique critters from danger, officials said Tuesday.