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 ...

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – The battle lines were drawn the day John Johnson saw an iguana emerging from a burrowing owl hole. On this barrier island off southwest Florida, Johnson had enjoyed watching the ...

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 ...

In an attempt to thin the reptile population in the barrier island municipality, in 2022 city officials resolved to institute an "iguana remediation program" with a $435,000 annual budget to ...

Initially they thought Fiji might be a bit too far for such a trip, but in a new study, researchers inspected the genes of 14 iguana species spanning the Americas, the Caribbean and Fiji.