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

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

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 ...

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 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 from ...

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.

To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers analyzed the genes ... but it has likely played a large role in shaping species diversity on islands around the world,” Campbell-Staton ...