The Galápagos Islands are famous worldwide for their one-of-a-kind plants and animals. If you’re lucky enough to explore the islands yourself, be sure to keep an eye out for marine iguanas. As seen in ...

The final episode in the Galapagos Islands features some of the “newer” islands. There are plenty of interesting creatures in the waters around these islands, like marine iguanas and the Flightless ...

Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is the world’s only ocean-foraging lizard, found exclusively in the Galápagos Islands. This remarkable reptile has evolved a unique blend of land and sea ...

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 ...

Nobody sleeps in on a Hurtigruten cruise to the Galapagos. By 7 a.m., my fellow passengers were on deck, binoculars trained on the sky. Sure, I love to see pelicans, albatross and hawks too, but my ...

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 ...