For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species ...

A new study tracks down where native iguanas in Fiji and an extinct species from Tonga came from, offering clues about the ecosystems of volcanic islands.

Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of South America.

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

While sailors today can take advantage of favorable winds to reach Fiji from California in about a month, an iguana — or more ...

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

A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. Animals are known to have conquered large distances, riding on nature’s rafts.

Scientists studying these creatures have often asked how they managed to get from their native lands in the Americas, to the ...

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

The new analysis relies on a genome-wide DNA sequence that Scarpetta collected from over 200 iguana specimens from museums around the world. The work revealed the Brachylophus genus in Fiji is most ...

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