And researchers also suspect that rafting facilitated iguanas’ migration ... early iguana in North America.” As such, rafting seems like the most likely possibility. And the study authors ...

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the ...

Scarpetta and his team’s study adds new information to the rafting theory by focusing on the genetic history of Fijian iguanas. By studying genetic samples from 14 different iguana species ...

In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings ... After studying the DNA of more than 200 iguana specimens from museum collections worldwide, the team determined that Fiji iguanas ...

according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The voyage made by these inadvertently intrepid iguanas would represent the longest transoceanic migration of any nonhuman land vertebrate.

In previous research, scientists believed that the native Fiji iguanas were descendants of a different iguana species that had gone extinct, however, the new study suggests otherwise. According to the ...

The ability of GPS devices to obtain a positional fix at any time of the day anywhere on Earth makes them extremely useful to the study of animal migration, particularly for marine mammals ...

Radar has several benefits over other techniques to study migration such as visual observations, trapping, and banding, as it works well at altitude and over large distances, is unaffected by the ...