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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 SuggestsSince most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...
Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.
NEW YORK — Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South ... the 5,000 mile odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted ...
The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...
Researchers have proposed that Fiji's native iguanas reached the islands by travelling nearly 8,000 kilometers on mats of ...
Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...
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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