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 ...

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

which doesn’t fit with earlier theories of the origin of the Fiji iguanas. “When you don’t really know where Brachylophus fits at the base of the tree, then where they came from can also be almost ...

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

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

LAMBERT: The other idea is that Fiji and Iguanas got there much more gradually. Over many generations, iguanas from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...