Ancient iguanas sailed around 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji by clinging to floating vegetation, new research ...
The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.
Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...
Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...
The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...
At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...
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 ...