Most iguanas are indigenous to the Americas. So how did the Fijian species end up on the island, nearly 5000 miles away in the South Pacific?... How did iguanas end up in Fiji? By raft Where did the ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

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NEW YORK — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas — thousands of miles and one giant ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas — thousands of miles and one ...

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — having rafted some 5,000 miles from the West Coast of the faraway continent, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A critically endangered species of iguana, Brachylophus vitiensis, is spotted on a piece of bark on Viti Levu island in Fiji. - ...

A male Central Fijian banded iguana, Brachylophus bulabula, from Ovalau Island, Fiji. Credit: USGS Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently ...

Here's a reptilian mystery millions of years in the making. How did land-loving iguanas normally found in the Americas wind up thousands of miles away in the South Pacific in Fiji? NPR's Jonathan ...

Millions of years ago, seafaring iguanas may have pulled off one of the greatest long-distance migrations the world has ever seen. That’s according to a study published Monday in The Proceedings of ...