In fact, the region is home to 45 types of marine birds and 22 land birds you won't see anywhere else (think: Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like ...

Tropical forests host an estimated 62% of global terrestrial vertebrate species on less than 20% of the Earth's land area and ...

from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." Indeed, the Galapagos have been called a living laboratory where speciation can ...