Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
by Adithi Ramakrishnan, AP science writer

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24 March 2025

On 24 March 2025 The Associated Press reported: 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 ocean away. They thought maybe they scurried there through Asia or Australia before volcanic activity pushed Fiji so far away. But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation -- masses of uprooted trees and small plants. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

That journey is thought to be a record -- further than any other land-dwelling vertebrate has ever traveled on the ocean.

...They discovered that Fijian iguanas were most closely related to desert iguanas from North America, and that the two groups split off around 31 million years ago.

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