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LAMBERT: The other idea is that Fiji and Iguanas got there much more gradually. Over many generations, iguanas from the ...

Another option was that the iguanas hitchhiked from tropical parts of South America and then through Antarctica or even ...

Iguanas inhabit tropical, subtropical and desert regions of the Americas—but surprisingly, they’re also found on a few ...

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

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles ... wind up thousands of miles away on an isolated tropical island in the South Pacific? By floating on a raft of downed ...

JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Scientists have two major theories to explain how iguanas ended up on the tropical island Fiji. Simon Scarpetta is a biologist at the University of San Francisco.

Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to biologists: How did these lizards normally found in the Americas wind up thousands of miles away on an isolated tropical island in the South Pacific? By floating ...