Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

You know the feeling when you come back from a holiday and feel like you need a holiday from the holiday? You crammed in so ...

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

With the new analysis, a South American origin can be ruled out. And because the Fiji Islands emerged from the sea also about ...

Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.

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 ...

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

At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted trees and small plants. That ...

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

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...