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

“As soon as land appeared where Fiji now resides, these iguanas may have colonized it,” added McGuire, who is also a ...

"Alternative models involving colonization from adjacent land areas don’t really work for the time frame, since we know that they arrived in Fiji within the last 34 million years or so ...

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America. How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to ...

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related ... Some had speculated that the lizards reached the islands via land bridges as the southern supercontinent, Gondwana ...

Instead, iguanas could have traveled there more gradually, island-hopping and walking across ancient land bridges to populate parts of Asia and the Pacific before dying out everywhere except Fiji.

Instead, iguanas could have traveled there more gradually, island-hopping and walking across ancient land bridges to populate parts of Asia and the Pacific before dying out everywhere except Fiji. But ...