In the layered canopies of South American rainforests lurks a creature that ... these birds are a vivid symbol of South America's untamed beauty. Across South America's expansive landscapes ...

South America is known for the spectacular Amazon Basin, which includes waterfalls and dense rainforests but is ... inhabit this lush environment, from iguanas to boas. But if you pick a South ...

There are not many rainforests left here in their virgin form ... Martinique has a great love of carnivals and is no more adept at it than South America's comparatively nearby Brazil. The carnival ...

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

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long-distance ...

Others had posited that the iguanas floated on “rafts” of tree branches or other debris from South America, a voyage that would take several months. To learn more in the new study, the ...

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Previous theories suggested the iguanas had rafted from South America, crossed the Bering land bridge to Asia or reached Antarctica before rafting over to Fiji. Researchers had even suggested they ...

Authorities have started offering bounties for people to hunt down iguanas in southern Taiwan. The island’s iguana population has exploded since the spiky backed giant lizards were introduced ...

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America. How land-loving ... on an isolated tropical island in the South Pacific? By floating on a raft of ...