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New ‘Big Birds’ in Galapagos arose super fast

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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The process of speciation usually takes millions years depending on many natural factors. But for a new species of finches, it happened in just two generations, and some scientists were able to see this magnificent process. The new lineage comes from a process of hybridization of two different species of Darwin’s finches. While conducting the

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Galapagos penguin

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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The Galapagos penguin, endemic to the archipelago, is a penguin species that lives in the “Northernmost place of the world”. Most of its population is found on the rocky coast of the islands: Fernandina and Isabela, the westernmost islands of the Galapagos. It is the third smallest penguin species on the planet. It is incredibly

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Pinzon Island is recovered through a natural project

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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The possible finding of a new endemic snail species and the reproduction and survival of land tortoises in Pinzon Island are some of the results obtained with the application of the Pinzon project, executed since 2012 by the Galapagos National Park, with the support of The Island Conservation and The Raptor Center. Before the project,

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