Rare footage of a bigfin squid captured by a ROV deployed 11,000 feet deep in the Tonga Trench. Credit: Deep Sea Research Center, University of Western Australia ...

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely ...

The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

Learn more about Fiji’s iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 34 million years ago.

The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.

At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...

These include tropical atolls, coral reefs and a large variety of flora and fauna, not to mention the region’s dramatic volcanic landscapes. Tonga is home to a number of volcanoes including ...

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...