The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...

The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...

Tribes from the Bering Sea isle say they’re living — and dying— with the toxic legacy of Cold War military installations. A U ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...