Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...
Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.
Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji. Researchers have long ...
Scientists studying these creatures have often asked how they managed to get from their native lands in the Americas, to the ...
Researchers have proposed that Fiji's native iguanas reached the islands by travelling nearly 8,000 kilometers on mats of ...
The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.