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

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

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

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

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

By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an ... ride across oceans on uprooted trees or tangles of plants — has long been recognized as a way for small ...

Overwater travel for both animals and plants isn’t unique in and of itself ... the massive 5,000-mile trip to Fiji took them by surprise. “That they reached Fiji directly from North America ...

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

But for long distance travel, the Fiji iguanas can't be touched ... is the main way newly formed islands get populated by plants and animals, including humans, often leading to the evolution ...

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands ... vegetation – masses of uprooted trees and small plants. That journey is thought to be a record ...