Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south — North America contains a vast range of habitats. From land to sea, there are forests, mountains, ...

When desert animals face environmental extremes day in and day out, every unique anatomical feature can aid in their survival ...

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A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — having rafted some 5,000 miles from the West Coast of the faraway continent, ...

Across America, a handful of extraordinary national parks give travelers the rare chance to see endangered animals thriving ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

The High Desert Museum's avian flight program, Raptors of the Desert Sky, features owls, hawks and other birds of prey that swoop low over the crowd. The High Desert Museum in Bend has received ...

Iguanas on the remote islands of Fiji may appear to live chill lives, but according to new research they had to work for it: by floating across thousands of miles of ocean on vegetation in the last 30 ...

In the middle of summer, most Southern Californians would be surprised to see more than a handful of clouds in the sky (unless you count clouds of wildfire smoke). But on July 14 in Twentynine Palms, ...