Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

Around 34 million years ago, iguanas traveled one-fifth of the way around the world from the western coast of North […] ...

Most iguanas live in the Americas. But scientists have found evidence some floated to Fiji, likely snacking on their raft ...

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

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

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

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

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 trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.

Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.

Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji New genetics support the theory that iguanas voyaged to Fiji on ...

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 ...