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

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

Others had posited that the iguanas floated on “rafts” of tree branches or other debris from South America, a voyage that would take several months. To learn more in the new study, the ...

NEW YORK — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific ... to desert iguanas from North America, and that the two groups split ...

This timeline challenges previous theories that iguanas may have made a complex overland journey from South America via Antarctica, which would have happened much later in history, said study ...

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