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Six Sites That Are the Galapagos For Modern Darwins

tree snake

The once-isolated islands of the Galápagos gave Charles Darwin insights into the dynamics of evolution that changed for­ever the way we think about the world

we can see evidence of animals’ and plants’ adapting to their environment before our eyes

go for fresh inspiration about how life has adapted

25,000 feet under the sea

images of abundant life nearly five miles beneath the surface of the Pacific

Somehow they’ve adapted to the extreme cold and intense pressure

An Abandoned Copper Mine

metal-eating earthworms

devour toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and copper

The Wilds of New Guinea

New Guinea has 7 percent of the world’s biodiversity

The island harbors some of the world’s most unusual organisms, including kangaroos that live in trees and lizards that have green blood
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Tikaalik roseae fossil

The Canadian Arctic

fossil fish, Tiktaalik roseae

a combination of the limbs, skull, neck, and ribs of four-limbed animals and the more primitive jaw, fins, and scales of fish

Bacterial filaments entombed in limestone at the Cuatro Cienegas basin in Mexico