Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji. Researchers have long ...
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
Learn more about Fiji’s iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 34 million years ago.
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.
The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s Mexico to Fiji on rafts made of vegetation.
Ancient iguanas sailed around 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji by clinging to floating vegetation, new research ...
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...
Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...
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 ...
Scientists think that’s how iguanas got to the Galapagos Islands off of Ecuador and between islands in the Caribbean.