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Iguanas reached Fiji by floating 8,000 kilometres across the sea
Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.
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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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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Iguanas likely floated to Fiji in record rafting trip
Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...
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Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific ... the 5,000-mile odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted ...
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Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
eventually arriving in Fiji, according to a new study. Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made the extraordinary voyage by rafting on floating vegetation, possibly ...