Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists think that’s how iguanas got to the Galapagos Islands off of Ecuador and between islands in the Caribbean.

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 ...

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

The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.

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

Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji New genetics support the theory that iguanas voyaged to Fiji on ...