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

Most iguanas live in the Americas. But scientists have found evidence some floated to Fiji, likely snacking on their raft ...

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

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

The Argentine black and white tegu lizard is a non-native, invasive species distributed throughout Florida through escapes or ...

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000-mile odyssey on a raft of floating ...

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

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

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

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

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely ...