IMAX: Galapagos 3D

00:01:33 Straddling the equator 600 miles off the western coast of South America...

00:02:54 ...reaches back to her first reading of Darwin’s journals.

00:04:00 ...the Galapagos bear testament to a volcanic birth...

00:05:35 With Ecuadorian naturalist Matthias Espinosa...

00:07:26 ...it’s a scary feeling to be...

00:08:51 ...was one of the key observations that led him to propose...

00:09:48 As with the tortoises, natural selection shaped the beaks for special functions:

00:10:55 The cactus' tree-like form may have evolved as a defense.

00:11:43 In these sheltered nurseries...

00:13:24 ...or by island-hopping across fragments of land that are now submerged.

00:14:23 ...where they've staked their claim...

00:15:55 Just as on land, the underwater inhabitants...

00:18:07 ...wondering how their oddly shaped heads evolved.

00:19:25 ...to survive in its own unique way.

00:20:39 ...a sign that the islands are still under construction.

00:23:34 I'm not about to stick around to find out.

00:25:36 Roger that. We're diving.

00:26:41 To consider that less than 1 percent of the world's ocean floor has been explored...

00:27:58 ...a peculiar fish with leg-like fins rides in the craft's collection bucket.

00:30:08 This should be an easy one. It's a pelagic sea cucumber.

00:32:40 Each new species will be carefully studied by scientists at the Smithsonian...

00:33:33 -Carole, come and look at this. -What have you got?

00:34:36 "...a perennial source of new things. "

00:36:07 I was leaving the Galapagos with far more than I had hoped to find here.