a professional iguana remover, says this is due to their metabolism slowing down. The cold-blooded reptiles can’t function regularly in cold weather. “They climb the trees to go to sleep but ...

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 ...

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 ...

After studying the DNA of more than 200 iguana specimens from museum collections worldwide, the team determined that Fiji iguanas, which belong to the genus Brachylophus, are most closely related ...

A new analysis of iguana genetics, published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, supports the hypothesis that these imposing reptiles actually traveled all the way fr ...

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 ...