Marine Iguanas of Galápagos: The Ocean Lizard
Meeting the Galápagos Marine Iguana: The World’s Only Seafaring Lizard Few animals embody the strange, wonderful logic of evolution quite like the Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Sprawled across volcanic rocks, looking almost prehistoric, these creatures were famously dismissed by Charles Darwin as clumsy and unattractive.