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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by the United States Geological Survey shows a female Lau banded iguana in Fiji. (Robert ...

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. -- If you have an iguana problem on Marco Island, there's only one person to call. John Johnson, the owner and founder of Down Goes Iguana, has been removing the invasive pests ...

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is this possible? With their bright green scales and powder blue and ...

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 ...

It turns out the man was there because of an issue that Catanzaro herself had brought up to her property management company — hoards of invasive iguanas. His weapon was actually an air gun.

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas — thousands of miles and one giant ocean ...

Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji The voyage, the longest known transatlantic dispersal of any land animal, took place within the last 34 million years Date ...

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji NEW YORK -- Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in ...

By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from the Southwestern United ...