How the Galapagos Islands Changed the World

Monday, July 21, 2008 - 13:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The Galapagos Islands host a faunal freak show of rare animal species endemic only to those volcanic specks isolated in the Pacific Ocean. While still very interesting to ecologists today, in the 19th century the life there proved key in Charles Darwin's

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