A population of finches on the Galapagos has been discovered in the process of becoming a new species.
This is the first example of speciation that scientists have been able to observe directly in the field.
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Wow wonderful news
I can hear the creationists now. "It's still a bird!"
Didn't Mr. Darwin see this a couple of hundred years ago???
Darwin saw a number of different species that were similar to the species in the mainland, and that prompted him to hypothesize that the different island species all came from a mainland ancestor. He was not able to actually witness the speciation process like the biologists in the article.
this is amazing! I look forward to kent hovind saying "but its not a dog".
oh the creationists are going to blow a gasket, they have to acknowledge what they call micro evolution yet deny macro evolution despite there only being evolution.