the island they found was rich with different habitats and lacked competitors. Adapting to these new conditions triggered the evolution of at least 100 species – the most bizarre arguably being ...

The Galápagos Rail has returned after conservationists removed wild cat and rat populations that had driven out the bird ...

The number of endemic plant species (those found nowhere else ... still hear the song of the Socotra bunting, part of the island’s weird and wonderful array of life. Natural history writer ...

In the year 1551 a strange male animal was put on public ... Neither the Fang nor the Bubi locals, accustomed to hunting the island animals for food, share the scientists’ appreciation of ...