Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...

By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The ...

Millions of years ago, a band of intrepid iguanas boarded a floating vessel, and reached the remote Pacific island chain.

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

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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 ...

Researchers believe the iguanas made the more than 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) journey on rafts made of vegetation, arriving in Fiji shortly after the islands formed. "You could imagine some kind ...

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji NEW YORK -- Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in ...

By Laura Baisas Posted 10 Hours Ago About 34 million years ago, a group of iguanas went on an epic journey. This lofty band of reptiles traveled about 5,000 miles from the western coast of North ...

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 ...

Millions of years ago, a group of iguanas found themselves adrift on the open ocean, clinging to floating vegetation. Against all odds, they survived a grueling 5,000-mile journey from North America ...