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...

00:07:29 ...scrambling around in a place where the roof can collapse any minute.

00:08:55 ...the theory of evolution by natural selection...

00:09:55 Bigger beaks crack the heavy seeds, and slender bills probe for tiny insects.

00:10:59 Taller-stemmed plants were beyond the reach of hungry reptiles...

00:11:49 ...that wait for them in the deeper waters offshore.

00:13:37 ...the descendants of those first pioneers evolved the sooty-gray hides...

00:14:51 The Galapagos islands are merely the tip of the iceberg or, more properly...

00:16:02 They seem to enjoy distracting me from my work.

00:18:36 But whatever their secret, It's working.

00:19:43 ...or to surprise their prey.

00:22:41 The spotted Moray Eel.

00:23:47 ...where the most exciting and risky part of her mission gets underway:

00:25:51 ...you don't know whether to be excited or terrified.

00:27:07 ...the sub descends beyond the range of traditional scuba gear.

00:29:20 Okay, we're on the bottom.

00:31:08 You have permission to leave the bottom.

00:33:07 I have a real fascination with everything we found.

00:34:01 In their own way, the new species collected are as weird and wonderful...

00:35:21 The unique creatures of the Galapagos islands and their surrounding waters...

01:08:03 from the shore...