As polar tourism surges, experts warn of its environmental impact. From transport choices to local food, here's how to visit ...

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 ...

Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...

The alarm was raised in one of the world's most remote workplaces after a scientist allegedly snapped, attacked a colleague ...

A scientist at a South Africa-run research base in Antarctica sent a desperate email to the government, alleging that a team ...

A team from EL PAÍS joins the Spanish expedition which has detected the spread of deadly avian flu among Antarctic fauna ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...

The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.

Zooming out, the researchers say that investigating how animals responded to past environmental ... obtain much older DNA from sediments on land in Antarctica—maybe even one-million-year-old ...

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...