The Galápagos Islands are famous worldwide for their one-of-a-kind plants and animals. If you’re lucky enough to explore the ...

Snorkel with a wide range of wildlife, from white and black-tip reef sharks and hammerheads to sea lions, schools of colorful fish, rays, sea turtles, and marine iguanas. Hike through the dense ...

“I enjoy them because they come across as very amiable and easygoing,” says Amy MacLeod, a conservation biologist at Leipzig University, who studies marine iguana populations. “They are ...

In 1970, during his second Galápagos trip, Sulloway came across another hawk, one that was trying to capture a marine iguana almost as large as the bird itself. For more than three hours ...

On Española Island I nearly trampled a tangle of marine iguanas, which have scabby red and green skin, like oversized Christmas sweaters. Minutes later, an albatross as large as a kite nearly ...

If you’re lucky enough to explore the islands yourself, be sure to keep an eye out for marine iguanas. As seen in this YouTube video, these extraordinary underwater Godzillas are like nothing ...