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

The University of Georgia runs an interactive map to track how far into Georgia these monstrous tegu lizards are spreading.

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the ...

Within that genus, the most widespread lizard is the North American desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, which has adapted to the desert heat of the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico, according ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

Researchers determined the lizards likely floated nearly 200 miles ... supports the idea that these iguanas originated in North America, as no fossils of desert iguanas have been found elsewhere ...

Clarke County has one reported sighting, while Franklin County, Hall County and even as far north as Union County ... and turkeys—and other reptiles like the American alligator and gopher ...

The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology collection.

they suggest the lizards hitched a 5,000-mile ride on floating vegetation from the western coast of North America within the past 34 million years. That trip would be the longest transoceanic ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.