Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
Iguanas Floated a Whopping 5,000 Miles From North America to Fiji on Rafts of Plants in a Record-Setting Trip, Study SuggestsIguanas inhabit tropical, subtropical and desert regions of the Americas—but surprisingly, they’re also found on a few ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN3d
Americas to Fiji: Iguanas took longest-ever 5,000-mile ocean Uber 34 million years agoThe researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.
LAMBERT: The other idea is that Fiji and Iguanas got there much more gradually. Over many generations, iguanas from the ...
Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji New genetics support the theory that iguanas voyaged to Fiji on ...
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft ...
Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...
ZME Science on MSN1d
Some 31 million years ago, these iguanas rafted over 5,000 miles of oceanFiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...
The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...
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