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

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

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 ...

Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

"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 ...