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

The presence of iguanas in Fiji has puzzled scientists for years. Unlike other Pacific islands, Fiji is home to two unique ...

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

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the ...

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

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 ...

These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, but also the chuckwallas of the American Southwest. The Fiji iguanas are an outlier, sitting all alone in the middle of the ...

NEW YORK — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas — thousands of miles and ...

And researchers have long agreed that the ancestors of the iguanas of the Galápagos Islands made the nearly 600-mile trip from South America on bobbing vegetation. A crossing to Fiji, however ...

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 ...

These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, but also the chuckwallas of the American Southwest. The Fiji iguanas are an outlier, sitting all alone in the middle of the ...