If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. A species of iguana that went extinct nearly 200 years ago on one of the Galápagos Islands ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. At least 60 wild iguanas have been captured, sold and exported from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador under permits that shouldn’t have been ...

The Galápagos Islands are home to some of the most unique wildlife on Earth, with many species found nowhere else. Their isolation allowed animals to evolve in remarkable ways, from marine iguanas to ...

Five hundred and five of these yellow iguanas were previously captured on Seymour Island, got health check-ups, and were released on Santiago Island. The yellow herbivores had become extinct on ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Ecuador, which governs the Galápagos Islands, submitted two separate proposals to list the land iguana species and the marine iguana on CITES ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long-distance ...

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 ...

Fernandina, the youngest of the Galápagos islands, is also the most volcanically active. The island’s La Cumbre volcano lies directly atop the mantle plume, or hot spot, that produced all of the ...

GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador (AP) — Warm morning light reflects from the remains of a natural rock arch near Darwin Island, one of the most remote islands in the Galapagos. In clear, deep blue water, ...