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Interesting details about the marine iguana is well known for its unusual diet and foraging mode. Feeding on subtidal algae, it incurs a high load of salts from its food. To cope with this high-salt diet, the marine iguana uses large cranial salt glands that excrete most of the sodium and potassium.