Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip

Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji
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