Most iguanas live in the Americas. But scientists have found evidence some floated to Fiji, likely snacking on their raft ...
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Iguanas Floated a Whopping 5,000 Miles From North America to Fiji on Rafts of Plants in a Record-Setting Trip, Study SuggestsSince most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...
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New Study Suggests That Prehistoric Iguanas Rafted 5,000 Miles Across The Pacific From North America Before Landing On FijiA genetic analysis of the world's iguanas may have just solved an enduring mystery of how the creatures ended up in Fiji.
By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The ...
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Researchers Figured Out How Iguanas Crossed The Ocean And Landed In FijiAround 34 million years ago, iguanas traveled one-fifth of the way around the world from the western coast of North […] ...
Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...
Fiji iguanas landed on the isolated group of South Pacific islands after voyaging 5,000 miles from the western coast of North America — the longest known transoceanic dispersal of any ...
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...
The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...
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