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

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji. Researchers have long ...

"We found that the Fiji iguanas are most closely related to the North American desert iguanas, something that hadn't been ...

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

Learn more about Fiji’s iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 34 million years ago.

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

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

Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...

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

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

Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...

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