Ancient iguanas sailed around 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji by clinging to floating vegetation, new research ...

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

"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 — ...

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.

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

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

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft ...

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

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