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

The ranges of modern iguanids — in the Americas and Fiji and Tonga — are shown in light blue. Credit: Simon Scarpetta and Jim McGuire The Fiji iguanas are an outlier, sitting all alone in the middle ...

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

For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the Americas without a clear timeline, while others ...

Today, Fiji is an idyllic island chain in the South Pacific, home to impossibly blue waters ... a group of intrepid iguanas made the 5,000-mile journey. But how in the hell did iguanas, who ...

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 ...

For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from the Southwestern United States to 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 ...