No one knows exactly when Gramma was born. But if the estimated birth year of 1884 is accurate, Chester Arthur occupied the ...

Gramma, who died at the zoo on Thursday, was believed to have been born in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was in the White ...

As a South American travel specialist, I've traveled to the Galápagos Islands several times. Travelers can expect to see species like the giant tortoise and the blue-footed booby. Adventurous visitors ...

Karen Catchpole is an award-winning travel journalist from the U.S. She uses more than 15 years of full-time exploration and reporting through the Americas to tell deeply reported travel and food ...

While the genesis of some of the volcanically-formed Galápagos Islands is somewhere in the range of four to five million years old, others in the constantly changing western reaches of the archipelago ...

Banner image: An endangered Galápagos fur seal. (Credit: Andrew Turner) While most of the world’s oceans are warming due to climate change, a new CU Boulder study explains how the waters around the ...

The Galápagos Islands were formed millions of years ago through volcanic activity. Their isolated location and the convergence of ocean currents have created unique ecosystems that support a wide ...

Our first reef community stop in the Reefscape project was the Galápagos Islands in December 2017. We found that ocean events such as El Niño can wipe out huge areas of reef, yet coral survival and ...

This spring, I was standing on the forward bow of the MS Santa Cruz II, bird-watching with a group of tourists under the cliffs of the Galápagos’s largest island, when one member of our company ...

Hundreds of miles off the coast of Ecuador, in the very place that inspired Charles Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution, a wild-growing species appears to have hit rewind. A small tomato found in the ...

A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive and now confirmed to be a living member of the species. The tortoise, named Fernanda after her Fernandina Island home, is ...

Some of Earth’s largest magmatic provinces result from the interaction between mid-ocean ridges and near-ridge hotspots, which are hypothesized to overlie plumes of upwelling mantle. Geodynamic models ...