Galapagos Islands Wildlife (Play Visions)

Review and images by Birdsage; edited by bmathison1972

While HMS Beagle’s famed second voyage in the 1830s visited far more than the Galápagos Islands—from Cabo Verde (where Charles Darwin’s geological revelations convinced him of Lyellian uniformitarianism) to Argentina (where Darwin came upon the type specimens of Glyptodon and Toxodon) and from Australia (where he noted many examples […]

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Sally Lightfoot Crab (Incredible Creatures by Safari Ltd.)

If there’s any animal ready to jump in the line, it’s the Sally Lightfoot crab (Graspus graspus).  Also known as the red rock crab, G.graspus belongs to the genus of ‘lightfoot crabs’ that are named such due to their rapid movements and ability to leap from rock to rock along the shorelines, with the ”Sally” rumored to have been named after a Caribbean dancer. This very name is also shared […]

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