“If you had to pick a vertebrate to survive a long trip on a raft across an ocean, iguanas would be the one,” said study author Simon Scarpetta from the University of San Francisco, in an email. Many ...

an iguana — or more likely a group of iguanas — would probably have taken much longer to ride flotsam through the doldrums ...

Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...

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

perhaps because their slower metabolism allows them to fast for a long time. Iguana species have proved adept at making shorter crossings. In 1995, Dr. Scarpetta said, scientists observed at least ...

“If you had to pick a vertebrate to survive a long trip on a raft across an ocean ... in an email. Many Fijian iguana species are endangered, and an invasive green iguana roams the islands ...

Different iguana species are found across the globe ... to sea and they survived the journey because they could have gone ...

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.