Six hundred miles 1,000 km off the coast of South America almost exactly on Earth’s equator a charcoal-colored lizard sits on a shore of jagged lava rocks The lizard is a marine iguana and with its dark skin and bumpy head it looks like it ONE IGUANA could have been carved from lava itself The iguana stretches two feet 0 6 meters long from its snout to the tip of its tail It soaks up intense tropical sunlight streaming down from the sky Suddenly though it stands and walks to the water’s edge Without a glance it does something no other lizard on earth does 3
It dives beneath the ocean surface to graze on plants 4
