Marine iguana eating algae off Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (© Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures)

【November 24 2015】There are sea turtles and sea snakes, but there aren’t many sea-swimming lizards. Enter the marine iguanas of the Galápagos Islands. At 4- to 5-feet long, and bearing a row of sharp teeth, they look beastly, but these gentle reptiles feed on the algae and seaweed that grow on the rocky shores of Fernandina and other islands of the Galápagos. Their spiky, salt-encrusted heads and flat snouts prompted Charles Darwin to call them “hideous-looking … clumsy lizards." Maybe our standards of cute have evolved – who couldn’t love that algae-munching face?Explore breathtaking Gallery from the HuluTrip homepage over the past 5 years..