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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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?

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

Fiji iguanas, an endangered reptile found only on the remote islands of Fiji and Tonga (part of Oceania). How did they get here, thousands of miles from any mainland? For decades, scientists have ...

"Sometimes we've been lucky and caught 300 iguanas in a day," Wu, 25, told AFP. "Sometimes we were not so lucky and caught two, three or a dozen." Carrying harpoon slingshots used for spearfishing ...