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 ...

For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the Americas without a clear timeline, while others ...

In the Caribbean, they’ve been spotted clinging to floating mats of vegetation, drifting between islands. The Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) likely arrived in a similar way. But ...

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Located at the confluence of three ocean currents, the Galápagos are a ‘melting pot' of marine species. Ongoing seismic and volcanic activity reflects the processes that formed the islands. These ...

“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 ...

While the team could not entirely rule out that the Brachylophus iguana arrived in Fiji via island ... researching the evolutionary biology of marine iguanas at the University of Leipzig, was ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In 1970, during his second Galápagos trip, Sulloway came across another hawk, one that was trying to capture a marine iguana almost as large as the bird itself. For more than three hours ...