Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

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

“That they reached Fiji directly from North America seems crazy,” said ... All told, there are over 2,100 species in the ...

Around 34 million years ago, iguanas traveled one-fifth of the way around the world from the western coast of North […] ...

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

The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.

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

Major weather events, such as hurricanes or floods, can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along with it. To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers analyzed the genes of 14 living ...

Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.

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 ...

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

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