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 ...

Iguanas on the remote islands of Fiji may appear to live chill lives, but according to new research they had to work for it: by floating across thousands of miles of ocean on vegetation in the last 30 ...

About 34 million years ago, iguanas sailed 5,000 miles from western North America and settled in Fiji. It's not uncommon for iguana species to hop a natural raft and drift to a new island, but ...

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A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended from ...

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 ...