(YouTube link) Imagine sitting on a beach and a... ...t up to you! This happened at Gardner Bay, in the Galapagos Islands. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/14/close-encounter-with-a-baby-sea-lion/
The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands have benefited from the captive breeding... ...to defend themselves against predators. When the Galapagos were discovered by Spanish explorers in 1535, hun...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/gentle-giant-the-tragedy-of-lonesome-george/
Scientists have successfully reintroduced giant tortoises to a Galápagos island where the species once teetered on extinction, raising conservation hopes for the rest of the archipelago.A survey of Española, the southe...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/06/27/espanola-tortoises-saved-from-extinction/
It may have taken the best part of a century but s... ...onesome George, the last remaining example of the Galapagos Pinta Tortoise (featured previously at Neatorama)...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/lonesome-george-to-finally-be-a-father/
Scientists have just discovered a new species of i... ...t has pink scales and lives on one volcano in the Galapagos Islands:... scientists have discovered that the &... ...omparing its genes with other land iguanas on the Galapagos .There were also physical differences, besides the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/06/scientists-found-new-species-of-galapagos-pink-iguana/
