Tag: platypus

Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia

Sydney Australia’s world-class Taronga Zoo offers a first-hand view of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Mascots. Syd, the Platypus When the first platypus specimens were sent back to England from Australia after European Settlement in 1788, they were thought to be elaborate hoaxes. They appeared to be cleverly created from a

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Galapagos, Ecuador

An IMAX Adventure about the Origin of Life and Natural Selection Traveling to the equator and across the Pacific Ocean, you arrive in the spectacular world of the Galapagos archipelago by air and by sea, just as every other species arrived before you during the past few million years. Islands

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