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

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

which doesn’t fit with earlier theories of the origin of the Fiji iguanas. “When you don’t really know where Brachylophus ...

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

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

By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The ...

In research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Scarpetta and his colleagues make the case that the ancestors of Fiji ... on uprooted trees or tangles ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

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

possibly composed of uprooted trees or plants. For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the ...