How did iguanas get to Fiji? Chances are, they floated nearly 5,000 miles on vegetation rafts
Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
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How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji
By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The ...
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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 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
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How did iguanas get to Fiji? Chances are, they floated nearly 5,000 miles on vegetation rafts
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Did you know that iguanas undertook one of the longest known overwater migrations from America to Fiji?
Researchers have proposed that Fiji's native iguanas reached the islands by travelling nearly 8,000 kilometers on mats of floating vegetation. Genetic studies indicate they share a common ancestor ...
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How did iguanas get to Fiji? Chances are, they floated nearly 5,000 miles on vegetation rafts
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. Starting off ...
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Iguanas floated to Fiji millions of years ago on an unprecedented raft journey, scientists say
Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long distance ...