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 ...

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

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 ...