On the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos, survival has pushed animals into unexpected roles. Among the strangest is the marine iguana—the only lizard on Earth that dives into the ocean to feed.

Iguanas are not typically considered marine creatures — except for the marine iguana. This species of iguana has evolved to be a master of the underwater world, relying greatly on what the ocean has ...

Greg Lewbart is catching marine iguanas to study their unusual shrinking adaptation. On the Galápagos Islands, Greg Lewbart and his team are trying to catch a marine iguana. Their goal is to study the ...

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 ...

A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is seen in Tortuga Bay at Santa Cruz Island, part of the Galapagos archipelago in Ecuador, on June 26, 2023. Unusually warm for this time of year, the waters ...

Footage of a so-called “Godzilla Iguana” first made headlines a few years back, but I only came across the video recently. The clip immediately captured my attention, which made me keen to share it ...

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 ...

A video shared to TikTok authentically showed a marine iguana found only in the Galápagos Islands. There are five species of lizard associated with states bordering Lake Superior, none of which ...

Fossils of a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived 66 million years ago, show a dramatically more biodiverse ocean ecosystem to what we see today. Paleontologists have ...