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

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.

New analysis suggests that Fiji iguanas landed on the Pacific islands after voyaging 5,000 miles from the western coast of ...

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

Fiji's 'outlier' iguana population made it there within the last 34 million years. By Laura Baisas Posted 24 Hours Ago About 34 million years ago, a group of iguanas went on an epic journey.

NEW YORK — (AP) — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas — thousands of ...

Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji NEW YORK -- Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in ...

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted trees and small plants.