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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...

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 ...