A genus of marine iguanas found in the Galápagos Islands, the only lizards in the world that dive in the ocean to feed on seaweed.
From Greek 'amblys' (blunt, dull) + 'rhynchus' (snout, beak). Named by naturalists because these iguanas have characteristically blunt snouts, distinctive from other reptiles.
The Galápagos marine iguana is like nature's experiment in 'what if lizards went to the beach'—they're the only modern reptiles that actively hunt in the ocean, and they got studied by Charles Darwin himself.
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