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Watch this monstrous 'sea devil' goosefish walk along the bottom of the ocean off the Galapagos Islands

Footage filmed 1,225 feet beneath the ocean surface shows a goosefish strolling along the seafloor before turning its bulbous head and bulging eyes straight at the camera.

LiveScience

Online transfers: Football clubs and players now using digital marketplace

As football clubs form their teams for next season, more and more of them are turning to a digital marketplace to see which players they could sign on. Charles Pellegrin talks to Frederik Broholt, commercial vice president of TransferRoom. Also, we take a look at the historic deal that reduces…

France 24

Ecuador seals record debt-for-nature swap with Galapagos bond

Ecuador sealed the world's largest "debt-for-nature" swap on record on Tuesday, selling a new "blue bond" that will funnel at least $12 million a year into conservation of the Galapagos Islands, one of the world's most precious ecosystems.

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How you can go shark cage diving off Oahu’s North Shore

The realization that I was entering a reverse fish tank became as clear as the Hawaiian water I was about to dip into off the North Shore of Oahu.

The Orange County Register

Ecuador has financing for Galapagos reserve, still open to blue bonds, minister says

Ecuador has secured $150 million in financing to manage its expanded marine reserve around the Galapagos, but remains open to blue bonds to benefit the environmentally sensitive area, Environment Minister Gustavo Manrique said Friday.

Reuters

‘Doctors told me it was stress – then I was diagnosed with stage four cancer’

Mollie Mulheron, 24, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands when she first experienced symptoms

The Independent UK

‘Doctors told me it was stress – then I was diagnosed with stage four cancer’

Mollie Mulheron, 24, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands when she first experienced symptoms

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‘Doctors told me it was stress – then I was diagnosed with stage four cancer’

Mollie Mulheron, 24, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands when she first experienced symptoms

The Independent UK

‘Doctors told me it was stress – then I was diagnosed with stage four cancer’

Mollie Mulheron, 24, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands when she first experienced symptoms

The Independent UK

‘Doctors told me it was stress – then I was diagnosed with stage four cancer’

Mollie Mulheron, 24, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands when she first experienced symptoms

The Independent UK

'Doctors said I had stress - but now I've been diagnosed with Stage four cancer'

Mollie Mulheron, 24, had recently returned from travelling in the Galapagos Islands where she began experiencing symptoms and had been told by doctors that she was 'too stressed'

Daily Mirror

‘Doctors told me it was stress – then I was diagnosed with stage four cancer’

Mollie Mulheron, 24, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands when she first experienced symptoms

The Independent UK

Trudy Rubin: The steadfastness of Galapagos tortoises is a symbol for our times

I took a vacation to the Galapagos in hopes that mingling with peaceful animals would provide some relief from writing about Vladimir Putin's bloody crimes.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Endangered pink iguana hatchlings seen for first time on Galapagos island

Scientists have discovered hatchling and juvenile populations of the Galapagos pink land iguana, an endangered reptile native to a sole island on the Ecuadorean archipelago, for the first time since the species' discovery just decades ago.

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Bankers bet billions on new wave of debt-for-nature deals

The Galapagos Islands, whose thousands of unique species inspired Darwin's theory of evolution, have incalculable ecological value. But what are they worth?

Axios

Big, green and furry: The origin stories of this year's World Series mascots

One's a bird from the Galapagos. The other's from outer space.

Irish Mirror

Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands are a must for the bucket list

This archipelago in South America has some of the most unique inhabitants you won’t be able to see anywhere else

Daily Mirror

China shifting fishing focus to the Galapagos islands - putting habitat in danger

Hundreds of ships have gathered near the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles west of Ecuador where they are resupplied at sea so they can carry on fishing

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'Boogie Nights' tortoise astonishes zookeepers after fathering eight babies at age 70

The arrival of elderly but still virile Dirk's eight children is a massive boost to the conservation status of the giant Galapagos tortoise, which is an endangered species

Daily Mirror

Four endangered giant tortoises killed as they are hunted and slaughtered for meat

Four critically-endangered Galapagos giant tortoises have been found slaughtered recently in the Ecuadorian archipelago and officials fear they are being hunted for their meat

Zenger

Iguanas Extinct For Centuries Make Comeback

Iguanas extinct from a Galapagos island for generations have been reborn nearly two centuries after they were first recorded by Charles Darwin.

Daily Mirror

Inside 'doomsday' vault near the North Pole designed to prevent human extinction

Seeds for every crop imaginable - from dragonfruit to tomatoes from the Galapagos - are stored here in this bunker which is built to withstand all natural disasters

Zenger

Flamingos Return To Galapagos Island After 20-Year Gap

Flamingos have returned to a Galapagos island 20 years after an invasion of rats forced them out.

The Independent UK

Meet Fernanda the giant tortoise from a species believed extinct a century ago

Scientists have used DNA to link her to a male found in 1906 on a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rare Albino Galapagos Giant Tortoise Faces the World

A rare albino Galapagos giant tortoise made its public debut at a Swiss zoo on Friday. Two of the tortoises were born last month at the Tropiquarium in the western town of Servion as part of a program to preserve the endangered species. One is black like its parents and…

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