North America is home to an incredible array of wildlife, from soaring eagles to elusive big cats, but many of these remarkable animals are quietly vanishing. Whether tucked away in remote forests ...

North America, with its variety of climates and landscapes, is home to some pretty amazing and incredible animals. From the Arctic of Greenland and Canada, the grasslands, deserts, forests, and ...

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an what is now Fiji about 34 million years ago — having rafted some 5,000 miles from the West Coast of the faraway continent, a new study has ...

Genetic evidence reveals Fijian iguanas diverged from their North American desert iguana ancestors roughly when the Fijian archipelago formed. As cold-blooded animals, ...

This makes the mule deer a purely North American big-game animal that has been shaped and forged by the rugged mountains, plains, and deserts of the West. Because of the harshness of these ...

Iguanas on rafts floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji, study finds. The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today ...

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

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

The North American monsoon plays an important role in the climate of the Four Corners states, bringing crucial moisture to areas that would otherwise be dry.

Horses first evolved in North America. Some of their early ancestors lived 30 – 40 million years ago and were small, three-toed browsers that fed on leaves of woody plants. By the last Ice Age, large ...

Genetic evidence reveals Fijian iguanas diverged from their North American desert iguana ancestors roughly when the Fijian archipelago formed. As cold-blooded animals, ...