How To Use marine iguana In A Sentence
- The tortoises, marine iguanas and land iguanas on the Galapagos Islands, studied by Charles Darwin, provide some of the most striking examples.
- They're the bright, neon-green iguanas of mainland South America, garish, streetwise cousins of the clean-living marine iguanas of the Galápagos, with dangling dewlaps and a decadent string of fringe down their backs.
- There are also sights that feel entirely new: a sloth swimming lazily in a tropical blue sea, or young marine iguanas pursued by fearsome racer snakes. Times, Sunday Times
- A troop of foul-smelling marine iguanas warm themselves in the sun in the Galapagos Islands.
- Their varied climates, ongoing vulcanism and extreme isolation, has produced one of the highest concentrations of endemic species in the world including unusual animals such as the land and marine iguanas, giant tortoises and the many types of finch that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution following his visit in 1835. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
- A troop of foul-smelling marine iguanas warm themselves in the sun in the Galapagos Islands.
- Marine iguanas have to run towards the intertidal areas between huge breaking waves, need to sprint to crevices or behind rocks to avoid being swept away, and have to grip the intertidal rocks as strongly as possible to resist wave drag.
- Marine iguanas possess specialized hindgut fermenting microbes that help them to digest algae cell walls.
