A YOUNG man of twenty-two, Charles Darwin left England as naturalist on board a warship, H.M.S. Beagle, on a journey that lasted five years. The greater part of the voyage was a protracted ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. On a remote island, a duck arrived hundreds of thousands of ...

Isolated on remote Scottish islands, tiny wrens have recently been discovered to be a fascinating case of island gigantism.

pt. 1. Beyond the mainland ; 1. Introduction ; 2. History of island studies ; 3. Factors that influence island faunas. Types of islands. Dispersals to islands. The candidate species. Composition of ...

Woody plants are unusually common on oceanic islands. Scientists at the University of Bayreuth, together with research partners in Italy, Great Britain, Norway and Spain, have now discovered a new ...

A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands. Dr Tyrone Lavery reports in a paper published in ...

Three-part series in which Professor Richard Fortey investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and meets some of the unique and remarkable species that live on them. Examining some ...

Remote Scottish islands turned tiny wrens into giant birds that may be evolving into new species. Tiny wrens living on remote Scottish islands are providing scientists with a rare look at how ...

Islands are hot spots of evolutionary adaptation that can also advantage species returning to the mainland, according to a new study. Islands are hot spots of evolutionary adaptation that can also ...

A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands. The smaller bat, Hipposideros diadema, is found ...