Most iguanas are indigenous to the Americas. So how did the Fijian species end up on the island, nearly 5000 miles away in ...

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...

Being Indo-Fijian and having lived in Fiji for the first few years of my life ... there is an opportunity to plant a native tree when mangrove kayaking. Accessibility: The accommodation is ...

Researchers have proposed that Fiji's native iguanas reached the islands by travelling nearly 8,000 kilometers on mats of floating vegetation. Genetic studies indicate they share a common ancestor ...

For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery ... Rafting — the term scientists use for hitching a ride across oceans on uprooted trees or tangles of plants ...

possibly composed of uprooted trees or plants. For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the ...

Millions of years ago, a group of adventurous iguanas, probably from Mexico, crossed the Pacific Ocean to Fiji on giant rafts of vegetation.

possibly composed of uprooted trees or plants. For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the ...

Around 34 million years ago, the ancestors of modern iguanas likely embarked on what may be the longest overwater journey undertaken by a nonhuman, land-dwelling vertebrate species.