For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species ...
Learn more about Fiji’s iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 34 million years ago.
The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.
A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended ...
A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended ...
Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of South America.