Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of South America.

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

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

These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, but also the chuckwallas of ... Previous genetic ...

Through a new review paper published in Nature, the researchers underscore how long-term studies have captured evolution's ...

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

These include the well-known marine iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, but also the chuckwallas of ... Previous genetic analyses of a few genes for iguanid lizards were inconclusive about the ...

Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.

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

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

Learn more about Fiji's iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 34 million years ago.

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...