These pets include ball pythons, leopard geckos, bearded dragons and African Sulcata tortoises. The snakes and lizards ...

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America. How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to ...

Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to biologists: How did these lizards normally found in the Americas wind up thousands of miles away on an isolated tropical island in the South Pacific? By floating ...

The results surprised Scarpetta. "The iguanas that live on Fiji were most closely related to a group of iguanas that I knew very well from the United States called desert iguanas," he says. The team ...

The new analysis puts those theories to rest. “We found that the Fiji iguanas are most closely related to the North American desert iguanas, something that hadn’t been figured out before, and that the ...

The results were telling. The Fiji iguanas (Brachylophus) are most closely related to desert iguanas (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) from North America’s arid landscapes. Genetic analysis suggests that ...

Green iguanas arrived to South Florida in the 1960s. 132 Argentine black and white tegu lizards were seen in St. Lucie County in 2021. Burmese pythons have been spotted on the Treasure Coast at least ...

They discovered that Fijian iguanas were most closely related to desert iguanas from North America, and that the two groups split off around 31 million years ago. The researchers created a ...

Iguanas inhabit tropical, subtropical and desert regions of the Americas—but surprisingly, they’re also found on a few incredibly remote Pacific islands, such as Fiji. Exactly how iguanas ...