The reason why the find is important to science is because this represents the first empirical observance of an animal undergoing speciation. The find has come about after biologists have been ...

Spruce trees provide two types of food; cones like this one that contain seeds for birds to eat and needles that caterpillars eat. / BILL DANIELSON / For the Gazette Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...

Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridisation, recent studies show that gene flow between closely related species is more common than previously thought. A team of ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the islands ...

To put it simply, volcanoes erupt while bird populations irrupt. An “irruption” is described as “a dramatic, irregular migration of large numbers of birds to an area where they are not typically found ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...

New research from CU Boulder confirms that there are not, in fact, multiple species of Redpoll Finches, as previously thought For birders struggling to figure out what kind of Redpoll they’re watching ...

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A parasite known to infect beaks in some iconic Darwin finches on the Galapagos Islands is changing the mating song of male birds. Our research, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, ...

To put it simply, volcanoes erupt while bird populations irrupt. An “irruption” is described as “a dramatic, irregular migration of large numbers of birds to an area where they are not typically found ...