Locals helped a van cross a river by floating it on a bamboo raft in the Philippines. The white vehicle carrying tourists was travelling to a campsite in the mountains and had to cross a body of water ...

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.

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific ... pulled off the 5,000-mile odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses ...