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

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 ...

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

At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...

The capacity of desert species to go for long periods without water would have come in handy, but the authors note it is ...

Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji New genetics support the theory that iguanas voyaged to Fiji on ...

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 ...

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

Instead, he thinks a small group of iguanas made one single trip from North America to Fiji. Similar albeit shorter trips have been observed on tangles of downed trees in the Caribbean.

Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to biologists ... They argue that a single dispersal event, likely more than 5,000 miles, from North America to Fiji is the most likely scenario.