Less than 100 miles from Taipei, Japan's westernmost island, Yonaguni, has rapidly militarized amid growing tensions between ...

The 'Tongan castaways' miraculously worked together to survive on the volcanic island before their unexpected rescue more ...

Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

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

A recent study published in Archaeology in Oceania explores the oral, linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence surrounding the Tombuk volcanic eruption.

SYDNEY: Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast ...

Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...

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

Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...

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 ...