The last person to officially record seeing a land iguana on Santiago Island in the Galapagos was Charles Darwin in 1835. After that, iguanas were erased from the island, wiped out by invasive ...

Galápagos National Park Directorate A species of iguana that went extinct nearly 200 years ago on one of the Galápagos Islands appears to be making a comeback, with some help from a team of ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long-distance ...

Feral pigs wiped out the iguana population on Santiago Island 200 years ago Some 200 years after their population was decimated by feral pigs, iguanas are being reintroduced to an island in the ...

Scientists have discovered hatchling and juvenile populations of the Galapagos pink land iguana, an endangered reptile native to a sole island on the Ecuadorean archipelago, for the first time since ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. At least 60 wild iguanas have been captured, sold and exported from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador under permits that shouldn’t have been ...

Handout photo released by the Galapagos National Park of a Galapagos pink iguana "Conolophus marthae", at Wolf volcano on Isabela Island in the Galapagos archipelago, Ecuador on August 6, 2021. - ...

It was thought to be a fortunate close call after a grounded tanker disgorged 150,000 gallons of diesel and bunker fuel into the biological richness of the Galapagos Islands in January 2001.

The Galápagos land iguana is back on Santiago Island. That's thanks to some help from a team of conservationists. A species of iguana that went extinct nearly 200 years ago on one of the Galápagos ...