Natural History of Hawaii

Big Island. Big Dreams. Big Adventures.
Often referred to as one of the world’s greatest natural history stories, the incredible legacy of the Hawaiian island chain begins with geology. Trillions of tons of rock, driven up from the earth’s molten mantle through a localized hot spot, created landscapes like no other in the world. Over millions of years, plants, animals and insects made their way to this largest of all island chains. As each arrived, its survival depended upon adapting and evolving to exist in the new land. “A land like no other” meant that many of the species that evolved here were unique, and unlike anything else in the world. Sadly, some of the very adaptations these endemic species made leave them prone to attack from alien organisms.

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