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

This discovery not only sheds light on the resilience of iguanas but also highlights the broader role of overwater dispersal ...

which doesn’t fit with earlier theories of the origin of the Fiji iguanas. “When you don’t really know where Brachylophus ...

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

possibly composed of uprooted trees or plants. For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the ...

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

The Forestry Ministry has invested $10 million in the 30 Million Trees in 15 Years initiative, planting 19 million trees ...

Learn more about Fiji’s iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 34 million years ago.

To find that out, he and his colleagues used genomic data from 14 different species to build an iguana family tree and ...

NEW YORK — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote ... of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted trees and small plants. That journey is thought ...