National Geographic News: Galapagos

National Geographic News: Galapagos
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As cold-blooded animals, marine iguanas must sun themselves before entering the ocean. These iguanas feed underwater and sneeze out excess salt, which dries to a white powder on their heads.

In Traveler magazines April issue, writer Matthew Chapman, a direct descendant of Charles Darwin, explores the Galápagos Islands to find out what might become of this remote animal sanctuary—where his great-great-grandfathers theory of evolution first took root—in light of modern pressures.
—Text by Heather Morgan, Photograph by Mattias Klum
 

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