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The key genes change the chemical structure of the pigment molecule through the actions of an enzyme which adds just one atom ...

Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition,” by evolutionary biologists Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant is the ...

If you’ve ever seen an Australian finch, you know that it has a brightly colored red, orange, or yellow bill. But how and why ...

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

Darwin, the largest population centre in northern Australia, was considered a vital asset in Australia's defences against an increasingly aggressive Japanese Empire in the 1930s. Its port and airfield ...

Scientists simulated how drought conditions could change the song of Darwin’s medium ground finches by digitally modifying recordings to mimic what would happen as their beaks grew larger over ...

Former Australia player Aaron Finch strongly disagreed with Sunil Gavaskar’s recent comment where the latter said that if Rohit Sharma does not play the first Test against Australia then Jasprit ...

What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red ... "Now, 165 years after Darwin first published his theory of evolution, we can see exactly how the frequency of these genes changes ...