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

Iguanas inhabit tropical, subtropical and desert regions of the Americas—but surprisingly, they’re also found on a few incredibly remote Pacific islands, such as Fiji. Exactly how iguanas could have ...

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

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an ... use for hitching a ride across oceans on uprooted trees or tangles of plants — has long been recognized ...

LAMBERT: The other idea is that Fiji and Iguanas got there much more gradually. Over many generations, iguanas from the Americas might have walked or island-hopped over land bridges that are now ...

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 ...