Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...

At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...

Around 34 million years ago, iguanas traveled one-fifth of the way around the world from the western coast of North […] ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

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

Major weather events, such as hurricanes or floods, can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along with it. To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers analyzed the genes of 14 living ...

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft ...

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

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

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