They argue that a single dispersal event, likely more than 5,000 miles, from North America to Fiji is the most likely scenario. Scientists have observed iguanas making similar, albeit shorter ...

Millions of years ago, seafaring iguanas may have pulled off one of the greatest long-distance migrations the world has ever seen. That’s according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings ...

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America. How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to ...

Starting off the epic trek from the western coast of North America, these iguanas traveled nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — across the Pacific ...

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.