By John R. Platt | Scientific American One of Charles Darwin’s fabled finch species is slowly disappearing, even as conservationists work desperately to save it. This “slow-motion extinction,” as a newly published paper puts it, concerns the critically endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). Native to the Galápagos Islands, the species has found itself plagued by invasive … Continue reading The Mangrove Finch: An Extinction in Slow Motion