If you love bird-watching, but you can’t afford booking a Galapagos Tour, then you can still enjoy pictures of this Galapagos frigate bird and others at picture sites like Acobox.

Being a biologist like me, wouldn’t you love as well to find a new species and name it after yourself?

Then you reckon: gosh, therefore I need to go to a place where no men went before and spend weeks and weeks trying to find something that maybe doesn’t exist…

Well, all but true! Look at the new pink iguana found at one of the most explored Galapagos islands: Isabela Island.

Just imagine: in 1986 Galapagos park rangers did spot pink and black stripes on some of the iguanas: thinking the stripes were just stains.

You need to think outside the box! It’s not because Darwin didn’t see them in 1835, that you wouldn’t be able to spot them and to classify them as new species! Darwin never explored Isabela Island’s Wolf Volcano in the first place: exactly the spot to find these few rare pink iguanas.

According to scientists, this pink iguana is older than and likely the predecessor of the other iguanas found on Galapagos. They date back more than 5 million years.

Just imagine: the pink iguana is on this planet more than 5 million years, Galapagos cruises are aplenty and still only today the pick iguana gets discovered!

I need to go back to Galapagos and have a better look as well! Anything I have never seen in any book, I will claim as a new species!

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