Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks ...

That would have stunned Darwin, who thought natural selection ... the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less ...

Scientists long after Darwin spent years trying to understand the process that had created so many types of finches that differed mainly in the size and shape of their beaks. Most recently ...

Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks ...

Caption Darwin noted how different finches from the Galapagos Island developed different kinds of beaks, based on the food that they specialized in eating. Later studies showed how rapid ...

The "fastest evolving vertebrate" title is hotly contested, but here are a few contenders.

They consult genetic scripture. Consider, for instance, the famous finches of the Galápagos. Darwin could see that their beaks were variously shaped—some broad and deep, others elongated ...

The finches had different beaks depending on their habits ... Scientists still agree that Darwin was right about this point. 'You can measure adaptation, but there's no evidence that evo- in ...

"The beaks of these primitive birds were very small and seem to have ... The famous naturalist Charles Darwin read about the fossil and said the work on "old birds" afforded support for the ...

And it didn't take the form of a bird's beak. It wasn't even a living creature. It was a trove of fossils. Never mind the notion of Darwin's finches. For a fresh view of the Beagle voyage ...

Darwin's drawings of the different heads and beaks of finches Darwin's observations revealed that the finches had wide variations in their size, beaks and claws depending on which island he was ...

It's remarkable that no one has ever really studied this in detail, considering that we all learn about evolution from the beaks of Darwin's finches in school." The researchers say their findings ...