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

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

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

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

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

The arrival of iguanas in the South Pacific can only be explained, a team of biologists have argued, if they caught a lift on ...

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

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

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

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas — thousands ...

A new study suggests Fiji's iguanas came from North America around 34 million years ago by floating some 5,000 miles. It's the longest-known dispersal of any land animal. So how did they do it?

Not many animals can expand and shrink their bodies at will. However, marine iguanas possess this ability. In times of food scarcity, their bodies actually get smaller so that they require less ...