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These watery lizards are known for sneezing a spray of salt right out of their noses ... First and foremost, let’s get acquainted with the marine iguana. This marine reptile is also commonly ...
The Godzilla marine iguana on San Cristobal Island ... but these iguanas have developed a unique ability to “sneeze” out salt. Their bodies filter out the extra salt using a specialized ...
Marine iguanas have a nasal gland that filters excess salt from their blood and expels it in a sneeze-like fashion ...
Many of the stark black lava shorelines of the Galapagos Islands bristle with hundreds, if not thousands, of equally dark, metre-long lizards: marine iguanas. Unmoving, from time to time they spurt ...
Yet Punta Espinosa has one of the largest concentrations of marine ... very high-salt diet. Iguanas have glands that help filter their blood of excess salt, which they expel by sneezing.