When a resident saw a man slinking across her neighbor’s back lawn to shoot an iguana, she was mortified and questioned if it ...

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

Millions of years ago, a group of adventurous iguanas, probably from Mexico, crossed the Pacific Ocean to Fiji on giant rafts ...

An iguana scurries into a burrow on the banks of ... One of his main weapons against iguanas is tree collars, a slick material he wraps around trees (especially fruit trees) and dock pilings.

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...

LAMBERT: The other idea is that Fiji and Iguanas got there much more gradually. Over many generations, iguanas from the ...

possibly composed of uprooted trees or plants. For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the ...

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

They believe the reptiles caught a lift across the ocean on a platform of trees, plants, or debris. These rafts occasionally break off from coastlines and drift out to sea as floating islands.