And researchers also suspect that rafting facilitated iguanas’ migration ... early iguana in North America.” As such, rafting seems like the most likely possibility. And the study authors ...

according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The voyage made by these inadvertently intrepid iguanas would represent the longest transoceanic migration of any nonhuman land vertebrate.

To learn more in the new study, the researchers compared the genomes of one of the four iguana species in the genus Brachylophus that are found on Fiji and Tonga with those of several species ...

Scarpetta and his team’s study adds new information to the rafting theory by focusing on the genetic history of Fijian iguanas. By studying genetic samples from 14 different iguana species ...

In previous research, scientists believed that the native Fiji iguanas were descendants of a different iguana species that had gone extinct, however, the new study suggests otherwise. According to the ...

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the ...

By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The voyage made by these inadvertently intrepid iguanas would represent the ...