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Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to biologists: How did these lizards normally found in the Americas wind up thousands of miles away on an isolated tropical island in the South Pacific? By floating ...

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 ...

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted trees and small plants.