The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

Cod sold in some European supermarkets is being mislabeled and is actually fished far from its claimed origin, according to ...

The federal appeals court ruled that an entire bird species must be added to the approved import list, rather than granting ...

A previously unidentified fish species has been named, and its origin has been traced to southern Taiwan following joint efforts between Taiwanese researchers and those at the Museum der Natur Hamburg ...

Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...

For decades, scientists believed that acoustic communication evolved separately in different groups of vertebrates. Variations in hearing structures and vocal tract morphology supported this idea, ...

Although dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth millions of years ago and therefore ceased to be the predominant species on the ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

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

Discover the Wallace Line, a biogeographical boundary between Asia and Australia, through the eyes of naturalist Alfred ...