From mangrove nurseries to manta ray protection, these 6 hotels invite guests to help protect the local land and animals.

From mangrove nurseries to manta ray protection, these 6 hotels invite guests to help protect the local land and animals.

Millions of years ago, a group of adventurous iguanas, probably from Mexico, crossed the Pacific Ocean to Fiji on giant rafts ...

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

that it dawns how unique it is that some animals manage to disperse across it." Biologists have long disagreed over how iguanas got to Fiji. While some supported the raft idea, others argued that ...

"But it's really when flying across the Pacific, and not seeing anything but ocean for hours, that it dawns how unique it is ...

“That they reached Fiji directly from North America seems crazy,” said ... All told, there are over 2,100 species in the suborder Iguania, a large group that also includes animals such as chameleons, ...

As they began comparing the data to that of the Fiji iguanas, the scientists found that these animals were most closely related to iguanas in the genus Dipsosaurus. Within that genus, the most ...

animals, and even humans. This process often leads to the evolution of new species and ecosystems. This study suggests that the original ancestors of Fiji’s iguanas coincided with islands ...