The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.
But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft ...
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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 ...
Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...
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Iguanas Floated 5,000 Miles to Colonize Fiji Millions of Years AgoLearn more about Fiji's iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 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 iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.
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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