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 isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...

The reptiles must hop on some flotsam ... since we already have marine and land iguanas in the Galapagos that almost certainly dispersed to the islands from the mainland.” ...

Endemic to the Galápagos, these raccoon-size lizards forage for algae along the shore; larger males dive into the ocean. The algae they eat die in warm water, rendering Darwin’s “imps of ...

Scientists working in the far flung archipelago have corralled more than 30 tortoises with morphologies reminiscent of Floreana tortoises that have the highest amounts of Floreana tortoise DNA, each ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.