Tourism Fiji has launched the world’s first ‘Happy Hour for the Environment’ or Loloma Hour, an initiative inviting ...

The presence of iguanas in Fiji has puzzled scientists for years. Unlike other Pacific islands, Fiji is home to two unique ...

For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species ...

You’ll often hear the phrase “wind, wave or wing” to explain how species arrived on islands in the Pacific. Here in Hawai’i, it is believed ferns arrived when their spores blew in from the wind. And ...

MIAMI, Fla. (WBBH/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A man has turned to iguana eggs for breakfast as the cost of eggs continues to soar. As egg prices rise, a Florida man has found a unique solution by ...

For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of ...

While sailors today can take advantage of favorable winds to reach Fiji from California in about a month, an iguana — or more likely a group of iguanas — would probably have taken much longer to ride ...

A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) rests on a coconut palm tree in Fiji. In a new analysis, its genus was most closely related to iguanas that live in the American Southwest and ...

But 5,000 miles is a long way for a lizard to travel. So, Scarpetta and his team also had to argue why iguana rafting is more likely than any other possibility. There are other theories about how ...

A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. Animals are known to have conquered large distances, riding on nature’s rafts.

However, there is no fossil evidence for either of these explanations. When Simon Scarpetta of the University of San Francisco and co-authors explored the genetics of the iguana family tree, and the ...