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| I was searching the internet for weird herps. And guess what i found. Look at the pictures below. 
These are marine and land iguana hybrids from the galapogos. Cool .What o you guys think??
I live by Xtreme rules. Ha, what can i say, some people have drugs, i have herps. At the end of the day we are all we've got. We ride together, we die together herp brothers for life.
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| More proof that hybrids do occur naturally. Are these guys fertile though? I vaguely recall hearing something a while back about two different types of land iguanas that had bred together but where sterile....
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| Hate to be the one to burst your bubble but those are not hybrids, they're Amblyrhynchus cristatus, the Marine Iguana. They forage in the sea around the islands eating algae off of rocks and then go up on land to bask on the basalt rocks, its just their instinct and behavior. That said there is still a lot of mystery surrounding the species such as how they got to the isolated islands in the first place, Darwin describes them in his book and they've most likely lived on the archipelago for millions of years evolving in isolation.
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