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 ...

By Liz Kimbrough In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s ...

What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red, yellow or orange bill? A major new study has uncovered the ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made ... Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds there, although ...

New research reveals how parrots and finches develop their extraordinary colours – and shows that evolution is an ongoing ...

The Importance of Darwin's Finches The group turned to a well-studied species ... if you have one subpopulation facing all these droughts and then seeing beak evolution and then songs changing in a ...

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Australian finches' bill colors come from small genetic variations affecting how they process dietary pigments.

Nearly all birds with bright red, orange, and yellow feathers or bills use a group of pigments called carotenoids to produce ...

collectively known as Darwin’s finches due to their role in helping British naturalist Charles Darwin understand evolution by natural selection. Researchers discovered that drought events can ...