January 06, 2009
Not Quite a Cadillac, but it'll do

Mark gets a coral-colored no-prize for bringing us news of new discoveries about the Galapagos iguanas:

A spectacular pink type of Galapagos iguana promises to rewrite the family's evolutionary history in the islands.

Rosada was missed by Charles Darwin during his 1835 visit, but appears to indicate the earliest known divergence of land animals in the archipelago.

Even better... the date of the split is well before the date the island these critters live on appeared.

Posted by scott at January 06, 2009 01:38 PM

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