Japan Sea element plants are generally thought to have evolved from closely related species on the Pacific side. Camellia japonica and Camellia rusticana were also believed to follow this pattern.

The world’s newest island has risen from the sea off the coast of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean. Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) told CNN the unnamed island was formed by an ...

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When red devil spiders ventured down the Atlantic and arrived on the Canary Islands, their genome dramatically shrank and became half the size within just a few million years (a blink of an eye in ...

Darwin’s Arch, a rock formation south-east of Darwin Island in the Galápagos archipelago, which lies 600 miles (1,000 km) off South America in the Pacific Ocean, has collapsed due to natural erosion, ...

The northeastern Faroe Islands, including Kalsøy, are renowned for their stunning landscapes. Steep cliffs with hardy grasses, narrow ridges, and waterfalls plunging into the frigid North Atlantic ...

May 18 (Reuters) - Darwin's Arch, a famed natural rock formation in the Galapagos Islands that is popular with divers, photographers and cruise-ship tourists, has collapsed from erosion, Ecuadorean ...

M ore than a dozen islands, formed millions of years ago, rise out of the Pacific Ocean 1,000km (600 miles) from Ecuador’s coast. Since 1959, 97% of the islands’ surface area has been designated a ...