Galapagos Islands

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Galapagos Islands
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Iguanas

• how are the iguanas different?

South American Iguana image http//www.animalwebg
uide.com/Iguana.htm
Galapagos Iguana image National Geographic
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Finches

• 1 crushing beak (seeds)
• 2 crushing beak (seeds)
• 3 grasping beak (uses tools)
• 4 probing beak (insect eater)

This More Information http//www.animalcorner.c
o.uk/galapagos/finches.html
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Argentina - Armadillos
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Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Megatherium giant ground sloth (lived 2 million
  8,000 years ago - extinct)
• Size of elephants

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Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Other giant slothsMegalonyx, Sceliotherium,
  Mylodon Darwinii
• as large as a rhinoceros

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Capybura
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Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Toxodon rhinoceros sized animal w/ a
  snoutlived 1,800-2.6 million years ago
• Darwin purchased a fossil from a farmer