Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered
Monday, January 5, 2009 - 18:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Darwin's visit to the Galapagos in 1835 missed finding a new species that has eluded generations of scientists until now – the "rosada" land iguana. New to science, yes, but the iguana's lineage marks one of the oldest cases of divergence from other species on the Galapagos. Scientists were surprised to date the species' origin to more than five million years ago, before some of the islands had even formed. read more