This suggests that the iguanas rafted 5,000 miles across the Pacific from western North America to reach Fiji -- the longest known transoceanic dispersal of any land animal.

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A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America.

After a 5,000-mile float, these iguanas probably set an ocean record Fiji's 'outlier' iguana population made it there within the last 34 million years. By Laura Baisas Published Mar 17, 2025 3:00 ...

How did land-loving iguanas normally found in the Americas wind up thousands of miles away in the South Pacific in Fiji? NPR's Jonathan Lambert has more on some possible answers.

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — having rafted some 5,000 miles from the West Coast of the faraway ...

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America.

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America.