A recent groundbreaking study has revealed an astonishing natural event: terrestrial animals that managed to journey across ...

As they began comparing the data to that of the Fiji iguanas, the scientists found that these animals were most closely ...

Major weather events, such as hurricanes or floods, can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along with it. To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers analyzed the genes of 14 living ...

Researchers have proposed that Fiji's native iguanas reached the islands ... However, for larger animals like lizards, such long oceanic voyages have been considered incredibly difficult and ...

Ancient iguanas sailed around 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji by clinging to floating vegetation, new research suggests.

Iguanas colonized Fiji after surviving an 8,000-kilometre sea voyage — the longest known oceanic migration by any land-dwelling vertebrate 1. Animals that can’t fly or swim have a hard time ...

“[The] lineage of Fiji iguanas split from their sister lineage relatively ... They’re also endangered due to exotic animal poaching, habitat loss, and predation from an invasive rat species. "Iguanas ...

A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal, ...