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 ...

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 — ...

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

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...

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

In May 2024 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered after four decades of ...

Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji New genetics support the theory that iguanas voyaged to Fiji on ...

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