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. Researchers have long ...
Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji, genetic analysis indicates
Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
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Some 31 million years ago, these iguanas rafted over 5,000 miles of ocean
Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...
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Iguanas floated to Fiji millions of years ago on an unprecedented raft journey, scientists say
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 one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji
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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Iguanas Floated for 5,000 Miles To Colonize Fiji
New analysis suggests that Fiji iguanas landed on the Pacific islands after voyaging 5,000 miles from the western coast of ...
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Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
Initially, they thought Fiji might be a bit too far for such a ... said study author Robert Fisher of the United States Geological Survey. Figuring out where these creatures came from can equip ...
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Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji
The Fiji iguanas are an outlier ... Other co-authors of the paper are Robert Fisher of the U.S. Geological Survey in San Diego, Benjamin Karin and Ammon Corl of UC Berkeley, Jone Niukula of ...