A genetic analysis of the world's iguanas may have just solved an enduring mystery of how the creatures ended up in Fiji.

Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...

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

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

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

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

Nuku'alofa, Tonga: Petelo Luka Kauvaka (28) received a two-year six-month sentence for reckless driving that caused the death of his 20-year-old nephew. The accident occurred when he sped excessively, ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely ...

"We found that the Fiji iguanas are most closely related to the North American desert iguanas, something that hadn't been ...

The four species on Fiji and Tonga are listed as endangered ... Other co-authors of the paper are Robert Fisher of the U.S. Geological Survey in San Diego, Benjamin Karin and Ammon Corl of ...

"Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call, 'karst terrain'," the US Geological Survey (USGS) explains. "These are regions where the types of rock below the land surface can naturally be ...