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Some 31 million years ago, these iguanas rafted over 5,000 miles of oceanFiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...
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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 […] ...
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...
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Americas to Fiji: Iguanas took longest-ever 5,000-mile ocean Uber 34 million years agoFiji iguanas, an endangered reptile found only on the remote islands of Fiji and Tonga (part of Oceania). How did they get here, thousands of miles from any mainland? For decades, scientists have ...
A new study tracks down where native iguanas in Fiji and an extinct species from Tonga came from, offering clues about the ...
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
Major weather events, such as hurricanes or floods, can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along with it. To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers analyzed the genes of 14 living ...
Major weather events, such as hurricanes or floods, can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along with it. To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers analyzed the genes of 14 living ...
The Fiji iguanas are an outlier All told, there are over 2,100 species in the suborder Iguania, a large group that also includes animals such as chameleons, anoles, bearded dragons and horned lizards.
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