There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the ...

The Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) likely arrived in a similar way. But nothing compares to the sheer scale of what the Fiji iguanas seemingly accomplished. In the new study ...

After studying the DNA of more than 200 iguana specimens from museum collections worldwide, the team determined that Fiji iguanas, which belong to the genus Brachylophus, are most closely related ...

“I enjoy them because they come across as very amiable and easygoing,” says Amy MacLeod, a conservation biologist at Leipzig University, who studies marine iguana populations. “They are ...

Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from the Southwestern United States to the Caribbean and parts of South America. So how could a handful of reptilian transplants have ...

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 from ...

A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis ... These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, but also the chuckwallas of the American Southwest.

“A common ancestor between the green iguana [Iguana iguana] and the Galápagos marine iguana [Amblyrhynchus cristatus] would have been my first guess as the predecessor for the Fijian iguanas ...

These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands ... The most widespread of these is the North American desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, which is adapted to the searing ...