Hard to believe a giant, pink lizard could be overlooked for almost two centuries.
Charles Darwin missed it during his 1835 study of the Galapagos Islands that led to his theory of evolution. Park rangers ignored the pink and black-striped reptiles after accidentally happening upon them in 1986. Some thought the stripes were just stains.
But scientists now have documented a new species, the iguana "rosada," (pink in Spanish), which may be one of the archipelago's oldest, according to research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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There are probably all sorts of other animals that we haven't discovered yet! That's just one reason why we should conserve animals' habitats as much as reasonably possible.
Do you think all the macho green lizards make fun of this pink lizard and call them "pansy pinkies" or "rosy posy puddin' pie?" I bet they do.
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