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 reached Fiji by floating 8,000 kilometres across the sea
Iguanas colonized Fiji after surviving an 8,000 ... can’t fly or swim have a hard time reaching islands. But intrepid critters can cling to floating debris, a method called rafting, to complete ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ... iguanas pulled off the 5,000-mile odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of ...
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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 ...