Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North America to Fiji. By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long distance ...

NEW YORK — 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 miles and ...

Recent DNA analysis supports the rafting hypothesis, indicating that Fiji’s iguanas diverged from their American relatives around 13 million years ago. This suggests that iguanas arrived ...

Iguanas Likely Crossed the Pacific Millions of Years Ago on a Record-Setting Rafting Trip NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands ...

Sponsor Message This rafting theory isn't entirely unprecedented ... of Anguilla — all on a clump of downed trees. Reaching Fiji would have been nearly 30 times as far — a months-long journey ...

we investigate the occurrence and timing of the greatest known long-distance oceanic dispersal event in the history of terrestrial vertebrates—the rafting of iguanas from North America to Fiji ...

eventually arriving in Fiji, according to a new study. Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made the extraordinary voyage by rafting on floating vegetation, possibly ...

eventually arriving in Fiji, according to a new study. Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made the extraordinary voyage by rafting on floating vegetation, possibly ...

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 miles ...

They thought maybe they scurried there through Asia or Australia before volcanic activity pushed Fiji so far away. But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the ...