Galápagos Album: Face to face
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Posted on: September 24, 2008 11:58 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Ichthyic | September 25, 2008 12:18 AM
what a nice smile.
a very happy iguana?
Posted by: Danio | September 25, 2008 12:20 AM
With apologies to the iguana, it looks uncannily like John McCain.
Posted by: Kel | September 25, 2008 12:22 AM
Only if you put lipstick on it. ;)Posted by: Noadi | September 25, 2008 12:22 AM
That smile is because he's wondering if you taste good.
What a great shot. I really hope to go there sometime.
Posted by: Ichthyic | September 25, 2008 12:24 AM
That smile is because he's wondering if you taste good.
more like he's eyeing my salad.
these guys are strict vegetarians, IIRC.
They dive in shallow water to feed on algae.
Posted by: Noadi | September 25, 2008 12:26 AM
I know, but that isn't nearly as funny.
Posted by: Trish | September 25, 2008 12:29 AM
Not McCain. Does this lizard look scared?
Posted by: FirstTimePoster | September 25, 2008 12:32 AM
@Danio
Isn't that a bit unfair? The iguana is much better looking.
Posted by: Patricia | September 25, 2008 12:38 AM
Danio - Did all hell just break loose on your end of the state with wind & rain? It's suddenly ugly here.
That huge lizard has a look on it's face like my Bulldog. Pleased about something. ;o)
Posted by: hans | September 25, 2008 1:26 AM
A face for radio, in my opinion.
Posted by: Nasikabatrachus | September 25, 2008 1:38 AM
I believe Captain James T. Kirk once fought one of these.
Posted by: Ichthyic | September 25, 2008 1:40 AM
I believe Captain James T. Kirk once fought one of these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd4GrxsNvhQ
Posted by: Quiet_Desperation | September 25, 2008 1:43 AM
Aaaawwww! Cute!
Isn't that the type they used as cut rate dinosaurs in old adventure flicks? They'd past a big fin on their back and film them in Up-Close-O-Vision while offscreen a stagehand pokes it with a plastic stegosaurus.
Posted by: Quiet_Desperation | September 25, 2008 1:50 AM
Yes! Here ya go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH6HLLDyg2Q&feature=related
Actually, that was a pretty effective scene when I was a kid.
Poor quality. Some tool videoed their TV screen. Der.
Posted by: Jonas E | September 25, 2008 1:56 AM
I want one!
Well, there a possible a bit too big for my apartment. A gecko, then.
Posted by: Bride of Shrek OM | September 25, 2008 2:29 AM
Mum, mum, Jimmy-Bob's loookkkkiiiinnnngg at meeeee. Make him sttttoppppppp!
Posted by: shonny | September 25, 2008 2:31 AM
Iguana is also one helluva lot younger and smarter.
That one peeping at you in the bottom right corner, on the other hand . . .
Posted by: craig | September 25, 2008 2:39 AM
kitty.
Posted by: Chris Davis | September 25, 2008 3:04 AM
Great ad for the benefits of eating seaweed.
A touch of lip-gloss would help, though.
CD
Posted by: Greta Christina | September 25, 2008 3:12 AM
I really hope you're sending these to Cute Overload, PZ. This one's a keeper.
Posted by: Agersomnia | September 25, 2008 3:32 AM
I know this is off-topic, but a Mexican website for atheists was hacked to the point of going offline and losing it's host, and it seems it was because an Atheist Pride March they were organizing:
http://agersomnia.blogspot.com/2008/09/mexican-atheist-website-under-attack.html
And it seems I'm the only one that has translated the news...
Posted by: Mrs Tilton | September 25, 2008 4:31 AM
Why, it's our distant, very distant cousin Clem!
Posted by: CyberLizard | September 25, 2008 8:54 AM
I love these guys! They look unbelievable swimming underwater. Lizards could soooo take an octopus! (oooh, did I just go there?)
Posted by: bernard quatermass | September 25, 2008 8:55 AM
Thank you for posting this, PZ. It made my day, though I am probably anthropomorphizing on some level. :)
Posted by: Sili | September 25, 2008 9:43 AM
JEBUS! PEEZED!
Put some damn shorts on, you old pig!
Posted by: Ron Sullivan | September 25, 2008 10:37 AM
Lovely lizard lips!
Posted by: E.V. | September 25, 2008 12:21 PM
Evidently, the Galapagos is not immune to the global obesity epidemic.
Posted by: Dallas | September 25, 2008 2:34 PM
Very nice.
Posted by: jwc | September 25, 2008 6:15 PM
Nice picture. It's now my desktop!
Posted by: Woody | September 25, 2008 9:38 PM
That's the third-ugliest cat I've ever seen.
Posted by: Michael C | September 26, 2008 3:17 AM
Thank your for posting that picture. Amblyrhynchus cristatus was the first scientific name that I learned at the tender age of 6 or 7 years old.
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