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

Ancient iguanas sailed around 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji by clinging to floating vegetation, new research ...

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

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

Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

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

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