There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the ...

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

who studies marine iguana populations. “They are quite ungainly on land but very graceful in the water.” Surviving almost entirely on algae, these lizards, some of which grow longer than four ...

Warmer water causes a decrease in red and green algae and an increase in brown – which can lead to a serious threat to the marine iguana population during periodic El Niño events. But how do ...

The Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus ... with little food and fresh water. “You could imagine some kind of cyclone knocking over trees where there were a bunch of iguanas ...

Luckily, iguanas are large and herbivorous and used to long periods without food and water. And if the flotsam ... These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, but also ...

Luckily, iguanas are large and herbivorous and used to long periods without food and water. And if the flotsam consisted of ... These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, ...

McGuire acknowledged it may have been “easier to imagine that Brachylophus originated from South America,” since marine and land iguanas dispersed to the Galapagos from the mainland.

“A common ancestor between the green iguana [Iguana iguana] and the Galápagos marine iguana [Amblyrhynchus cristatus] would have been my first guess as the predecessor for the Fijian iguanas ...