What happened to Darwin’s Arch in 2021?

On Monday, May 17, 2021, Darwin’s Arch in the Galapagos Islands lost its top. Ecuador’s Environment Ministry reported the collapse on its social streams and stated that “this event was a consequence of natural erosion.”

Bonus question: What is the Darwin Arch named after its collapse?

Following the arch’s collapse, locals nicknamed the remaining columns of rock “the Pillars of Evolution.” The nearby Darwin Island was named after Charles Darwin, whose studies of the surrounding area’s wildlife contributed to his theory of evolution.