Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
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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 Suggests
Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...
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Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
Starting off the epic trek from the western coast of North America, these iguanas traveled nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — across the Pacific ...
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How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji
LAMBERT: The other idea is that Fiji and Iguanas got there much more gradually. Over many generations, iguanas from the ...
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New study suggests Fijian iguanas 'rafted' across the Pacific from North America
A new study tracks down where native iguanas in Fiji and an extinct species from Tonga came from, offering clues about the ...
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How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji
Fijian iguanas pose a conundrum to biologists ... They argue that a single dispersal event, likely more than 5,000 miles, from North America to Fiji is the most likely scenario.
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Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
(CNN) — Around 34 million years ago, the ancestors of modern iguanas likely embarked on what may be the longest overwater journey undertaken by a nonhuman, land-dwelling vertebrate species.