The ranges of modern iguanids — in the Americas and Fiji and Tonga — are shown in light blue. Credit: Simon Scarpetta and Jim McGuire The Fiji iguanas are an outlier, sitting all alone in the middle ...

In reality, though, it’s big news in the science community. Professor Simon Scarpetta is the lead author on a study, ...

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is this possible? With their bright green scales and powder blue and ...

Today, Fiji is an idyllic island chain in the South Pacific, home to impossibly blue waters ... a group of intrepid iguanas made the 5,000-mile journey. But how in the hell did iguanas, who ...

Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North America to Fiji. By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and ...

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 America all the way to Fiji.

For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the Americas without a clear timeline, while others ...

Most iguanas are indigenous to the Americas. So how did the Fijian species end up on the island, nearly 5000 miles away in ...

A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended ...

Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji The voyage, the longest known transatlantic dispersal of any land animal, took place within the last 34 million years Date ...

But for long-distance travel, the Fiji iguanas can't be touched. A new analysis conducted by biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of San Francisco (USF ...