“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 ...

Iguanas are known for their ability to island-hop. In the Caribbean, they’ve been spotted clinging to floating mats of vegetation, drifting between islands. The Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus ...

In 1970, during his second Galápagos trip, Sulloway came across another hawk, one that was trying to capture a marine iguana almost as large as the bird itself. For more than three hours ...

“A common ancestor between the green iguana [Iguana iguana] and the Galápagos marine iguana [Amblyrhynchus cristatus] would have been my first guess as the predecessor for the Fijian iguanas ...