But it's believed that the species is endemic to the island of Gau. Local knowledge of the Fiji petrel is restricted to a few lines of a traditional indigenous lullaby. Discovering its nesting habitat ...

About 34 million years ago, iguanas sailed 5,000 miles from western North America and settled in Fiji. It's not uncommon for ...

Fiji, an archipelago of ... hotspot teeming with unique and often endemic wildlife. Isolated for millions of years, the islands have given rise to species found nowhere else on Earth, from vibrant ...

Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote Pacific island in the first place ...

The Coral Triangle has 15 regionally endemic coral species (species found nowhere else in the world ... Certain neighbouring countries, including Australia and Fiji, contain rich coral biodiversity as ...

The Fiji iguanas are an outlier All told, there are over 2,100 species in the suborder Iguania, a large group that also includes animals such as chameleons, anoles, bearded dragons and horned lizards.

Different iguana species are found across the globe, and some are endemic to specific regions, like the Galapagos and Fiji. In previous research, scientists believed that the native Fiji iguanas were ...