Darwin's finches are icons of evolution. Now, researchers have discovered how quickly they can evolve into a new species: with the help of an outside bird, a new species can develop in as little as ...

Charles Darwin recognized adaptions in the beaks of finches as being due to natural selection, and now modern researchers have identified a gene in the bird responsible for their shapes. Charles ...

Unlike Hawaii and other island groups, no native bird has gone extinct in the Galapagos Islands, although some are in danger. Biologists have found that finches -- the birds Darwin studied -- develop ...

If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...

For close to 100 years, it has been one of nature’s greatest whodunnits involving egg forgeries and plenty of deception. It is all part of an evolving arms race taking place out on the grasslands of ...