The Galápagos Islands' marine iguanas are unique reptiles that have adapted to life on land and in the sea. These remarkable ...

Marine iguanas have a nasal gland that filters excess salt from their blood and expels it in a sneeze-like fashion ...

Modern birds shake their heads to avoid this, while marine iguanas sneeze to force the salt out," says Dr Young. "We think that the expanded sinuses of metriorhynchids helped to expel excess salt.

Modern birds shake their heads to avoid this, while marine iguanas sneeze to force the salt out," says Dr. Young. "We think that the expanded sinuses of metriorhynchids helped to expel excess salt.

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"A major problem for animals with salt glands is encrustation, where the salt dries and blocks the salt excreting ducts. Modern birds shake their heads to avoid this, while marine iguanas sneeze to ...

which prompted concern that survey work in the area somehow contributed to their deaths. The Marine Mammal ...

Modern birds shake their heads to avoid this, while marine iguanas sneeze to force the salt out." The international team of paleobiologists, including researchers from the University of ...

“For metriorhynchids, when the sinuses were subjected to this effect, it would have compressed the salt glands within the skull and created a sneeze-like effect, similar to modern marine iguanas.” ...