Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

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 ...

At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific islands.

the scientists found that these animals were most closely related to iguanas in the genus Dipsosaurus. Within that genus, the most widespread lizard is the North American desert iguana ...

A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up ...

Overwater dispersal is the main way newly formed islands get populated by plants and animals, including humans ... “We found ...

Major weather events, such as hurricanes or floods, can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along ... these iguanas originated in North America, as no fossils of desert iguanas have been found ...

"But it's really when flying across the Pacific, and not seeing anything but ocean for hours, that it dawns how unique it is ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...