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

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

This discovery not only sheds light on the resilience of iguanas but also highlights the broader role of overwater dispersal in shaping ecosystems.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary ... So how could a handful of reptilian transplants have ended up on two islands in the South Pacific, more than ...

Instead, iguanas could have traveled there more gradually, island-hopping and walking across ancient land bridges to populate parts of Asia and the Pacific before dying out everywhere except Fiji.