Once you've seen them, there are some things that you can't unsee even if you try, and for many of us, it would be this video of a marine iguana found in the Galapagos. Ocean Diversity shared a video ...

The lizards likely reached the islands by hitching a ride on logs, vegetation or other debris, and diverged from their terrestrial cousins some 4.5 million years ago. Javier Aznar González Rueda A ...

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Witnessing marine iguanas in the wild Galapagos wilderness ...

With seven expeditions over the past ten months, scientists in the Galápagos Islands have been studying the last surviving population of critically endangered pink iguanas. Made up of an estimated 200 ...

Nearly 14,000 volunteers took part in the citizen science project Iguanas from Above, helping to count endangered Galapagos marine iguanas through an online survey—and in doing so, contributed to the ...

Cracks bloom along the ovoid surface of an egg shell. First a small head peaks out, then the rest of a long, thin, scaled body. A pink iguana emerges. No, it’s not a convoluted gender reveal—but it ...

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All four species of Galápagos iguanas are categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List and require permits for international trade — something the Ecuadorian government doesn’t issue for live ...