[Scythian]

Stories like this are such crap, scientists need to get real jobs or at least admit they are nothing but fiction writers and dopes looking for funding to avoid the 8 to 5 like the rest of us, honestly, between this kind of crap and stories about space these folks have proven they’re all idiots.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"as some of the islands' mosquitoes develop a taste for reptile blood"

No, that's propaganda. (a) This is trying to make it seem like this is something happening now, over the last 20 years or something, which is BULL. The mosquitos now are the same ones there when the Beagle was there.

(b) A mosquito focusing on a slightly different food source is merely change within a kind, "micro evolution", and does not prove that a giraffe shares a common heritage with a BANANA, which is what "evolution" means.

Steve-b, you're the most liberal guy that posts on FR, on a variety of issues, by a wide margin. Why do you like to come here & try & push propaganda on people?

[Leo Farnsworth]

I cannot believe how this story is written.

It's the safest place on the earth for all creatures (supposedly) - aren't they all on their own to fend for themselves?

A true scientific study would reach a conclusion: mosquitoes are beating the giant turtles 14-3.

In the Galapagos Islands mosquitoes have an equal opportunity at life as the giant turtles. If the turtles can't make it, tough beans!

[mnehring]

Here is some more information from the University of Leeds who did the study.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/media/press_releases/current09/galapagos.htm

[kittymyrib]

The lethal West Nile virus that affects birds and humans is carried by mosquitoes and bedevils Central and South Texas every summer, requiring spraying in the evenings.
Do so-called “scientists” ever read newspapers?

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“facing a new threat” [...] “islands’ mosquitoes develop a taste for reptile blood”

Outright lie. There’s nothing “new” at all!. Outright lie, trying to make it seem like they’re “witnessing evolution”.