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Iguanas sailed one-fifth of the way around the world on rafts 34 million years agoAncient iguanas sailed around 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji by clinging to floating vegetation, new research ...
Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...
Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...
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Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...
Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...
At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...
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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