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 ...

“I enjoy them because they come across as very amiable and easygoing,” says Amy MacLeod, a conservation biologist at Leipzig University, who studies marine iguana populations. “They are ...

Here is a list of eight of the world's rarest animals. This critically endangered porpoise, found only in the Gulf of California, has fewer than 30 individuals remaining, making it the rarest marine ...

Marine iguanas are unique in that they feed predominantly on the algae that grows on rocks near the shores of the Galapagos Islands. There are nine different types of algae that the iguanas feed ...

To learn more in the new study, the researchers compared the genomes of one of the four iguana species in the genus ... [Iguana iguana] and the Galápagos marine iguana [Amblyrhynchus cristatus ...