Shallow earthquakes are more dangerous than deeper ones due to their greater energy release closer to the Earth's surface, ...

Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...

“As soon as land appeared where Fiji now resides, these iguanas may have colonized it,” added McGuire, who is also a ...

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America. How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to ...

The origins of the four living iguana species in Fiji have been a mystery for researchers ... These genetic results, combined with the geography of where iguana fossils have previously been ...

Iguanas colonized Fiji after surviving an 8,000-kilometre sea voyage — the longest known oceanic migration by any land-dwelling vertebrate 1. Animals that can’t fly or swim have a hard time ...

Instead, iguanas could have traveled there more gradually, island-hopping and walking across ancient land bridges to populate parts of Asia and the Pacific before dying out everywhere except Fiji.

Instead, iguanas could have traveled there more gradually, island-hopping and walking across ancient land bridges to populate parts of Asia and the Pacific before dying out everywhere except Fiji. But ...