This discovery not only sheds light on the resilience of iguanas but also highlights the broader role of overwater dispersal ...

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

A new study tracks down where native iguanas in Fiji and an extinct species from Tonga came from, offering clues about the ...

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

A Fiji Island iguana is seen at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. A new study suggests these ...

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

While sailors today can take advantage of favorable winds to reach Fiji from California in about a month, an iguana — or more ...

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

But these ideas were based on past genetic analyses that did not conclusively show how closely Fiji iguanas were related to ...

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