The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating a big moment for an almost-extinct reptile species: the hatching of nine critically ...

I thought Ron Howard couldn’t get any darker than his 2003 Western The Missing, but with his latest Eden he comes pretty ...

What if nine Europeans, disillusioned by mass poverty and social unrest in a 1920s post-Great War Germany, attempt to start ...

Ron Howard's movies often are upbeat affairs, but with "Eden" (in theaters Aug. 22), he goes darker with a true story from the Galapagos Islands ...

Based on iNaturalist entries, an application where anyone can post sightings of plant or animal species, researchers believe ...

I've worked as a South American travel specialist for eight years and have traveled to all 13 of the main Galápagos Islands. Located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, the beautiful islands are ...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard expected to find incredible plants and wildlife during a trip to the Galápagos Islands — ...

Their scaly skin resembles volcanic rock, their backs are ridged with a row of spikes, and they have extremely long, curved claws. They use their tails as a whip to defend themselves, but even that ...

Ron Howard’s tale about a group of settlers who attempt to carve out their own slice of heaven in the Galápagos Islands rests unsteadily between drama and camp.

Experts estimate that before humans arrived, the were some 500,000 tortoises throughout the Galapagos Islands. Their ranks have been reduced to about 40,000 today, and 3,000 of them live on Santa ...

1. Traveling to the Galapagos Islands may be a once-in-a-lifetime trip, but it will cost me a small fortune. It’s all relative, say tour operators who work in the Galapagos Islands.