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 ...

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

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...

Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji. Researchers have long ...

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...

Iguanas are a highly successful family through much of the Americas, with 45 surviving species. They are, however, not known ...

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

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 ...

The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s ...