What most people think of as iguanas are the Western Hemisphere family ... With the new analysis, a South American origin can ...

By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an ... of reptilian transplants have ended up on two islands in the South Pacific, over 4,970 miles away?

Researchers have proposed that Fiji's native iguanas reached the islands by travelling nearly 8,000 kilometers on mats of floating vegetation. Genetic studies indicate they share a common ancestor ...

The beautiful island country is among the friendliest places in the world and has a collection of over 300 islands. The best weather falls between June and September with sunny skies ...

Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of South America.

Instead, iguanas could have traveled there more gradually, island-hopping and walking across ancient land bridges to populate parts of Asia and the Pacific before dying out everywhere except Fiji.

JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Scientists have two major theories to explain how iguanas ended up on the tropical island Fiji. Simon Scarpetta is a biologist at the University of San Francisco. SIMON ...