They were right about the strangeness: Cut off from mainland South America by about 600 miles of water, nature here ran wild. Among the animals that made the voyage to the islands from the ...

hundreds of thousands of giant tortoises lived in the Galapagos Islands. However, sailors began capturing the animals for ...

A fascinating fact about these gentle creatures is that males never leave the water, while females make their way onto the beaches to nest and lay eggs — a ritual that adds to the islands ...