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A native green iguana on Fiji. For years, biologists puzzled over how these iguanas had ended up in the South Pacific, so far from other iguana species. A new study sheds light on their evolution.

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on floating vegetation.

In the mid-'90s, researchers actually tracked a group of about 15 iguanas hitching a ride on a tangle of downed trees after a hurricane. The iguanas safely made it from Guadeloupe to Anguilla ...

And if the flotsam consisted of uprooted trees, the raft itself would have provided food. “You could imagine some kind of cyclone knocking over trees where there were a bunch of iguanas and maybe ...

They probably floated on a mass of uprooted trees or other plants. A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) rests on a coconut palm tree in Fiji.

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 ...

While some researchers suggested that the Fiji iguana’s ancestors had rafted there as well, Dr. Spencer said, others pointed to the vast distances as a reason for skepticism.