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Some of the creatures you'll meet in the Galápagos—and nowhere else.
Galápagos marine iguana
The only seagoing lizard
Flightless cormorant
Flightlessness, like gigantism, sometimes occurs on islands
Swallow-tailed gull
A nocturnal seagull
Lava gull
The rarest gull (just 400 pairs, but a thriving population)
Galápagos penguin
The only one to have traveled as far north as the equator
Thirteen species of finches
The little birds that caught Darwin's eye—and gave rise to his theory of evolution; all descend from a common ancestor
Galápagos sea lion
A cousin of the California sea lion
Fernandina, Galápagos, and Santiago rice rats
The lone terrestrial mammals to have crossed the ocean separating the Galápagos from the mainland
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