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

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

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

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 ...

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

Most iguanas are indigenous to the Americas. So how did the Fijian species end up on the island, nearly 5000 miles away in the South Pacific? According to a new study in the journal PNAS, it was ...

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 ...

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an ... to get from Central American to the Galapagos Islands, the massive 5,000-mile trip to Fiji took them by surprise.

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

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 ...