The Iguania suborder is a diverse group of over 2,100 species, including chameleons and various lizards. Fiji iguanas are unique, and isolated in the Pacific. The four species, found only in Fiji ...
Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
Researchers have proposed that Fiji's native iguanas reached the islands by travelling nearly 8,000 kilometers on mats of ...
Iguanas on the remote islands of Fiji may appear to live chill lives, but according to new research they had to work for it: by floating across thousands of miles of ocean on vegetation in the ...
Fiji's bright-green lizards are the only iguanas outside the Western Hemisphere, and how they got there has been a long-standing mystery. In a new genetic analysis published Monday (March 17) in ...
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is this possible? With their bright green scales and powder blue and ...