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Marine iguanas are unique as they are marine reptiles that forage on inter- and subtidal algae almost exclusively. They forage in the relatively cold waters around the Galápagos Islands, which typically are between 11 and 23 °C (52–73 °F) at the sea surface. [ 5 ]
Each island hosts marine iguanas of unique size, shape and color. They look fierce, but are actually gentle herbivores, surviving exclusively on underwater algae and seaweed.
The Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is a species of iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands . Unique among modern lizards, it is a marine reptile that has the ability to forage in the sea for algae, which makes up almost all of its diet.
Marine Iguanas, found only on the Galapagos Islands, are the only lizards on Earth that spend time in the ocean. Learn more about them and how you can help protect them.
Marine iguanas are the world’s only oceangoing lizard. They are also only found in the Galápagos, where they can be seen resting on the rocky shores. Introduced species such as cats, rats, dogs and pigs prey on marine iguanas. They are also threatened by the impacts of climate change.
Marine iguanas display stark physical differences from land iguanas: Land iguanas have rounded snouts, while marine iguanas have flat, sharp-toothed ones. Marine iguanas have a dorsal crest along their spines, which helps channel water sideways when swimming.
On first glance of a Marine Iguana, your first thoughts would probably be of a primitive dinosaur, with its dorsal crest and primitive features. The Marine Iguana appears slow and clumsy on land, but this particular species of lizard is the only sea-going lizard in the world.
Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) are the only lizards known to forage for food in the ocean, living off the algae growing there.
Marine iguanas, Amblyrhynchus cristatus (Bell, 1825), are the world’s only sea-going lizards and are a gray to black iguana with pyramid-shaped dorsal (upper) scales.
Unfazed by humans, they spend long, sunny days warming in the equatorial sun like scaly house cats, sometimes in heaps, between foraging missions at sea to feed on marine algae. Charles Darwin...