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 floated to Fiji millions of years ago on an unprecedented raft journey, scientists say
which doesn’t fit with earlier theories of the origin of the Fiji iguanas. “When you don’t really know where Brachylophus ...
WBHM 90.313d
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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How did iguanas end up in Fiji? By raft
Most iguanas are indigenous to the Americas. So how did the Fijian species end up on the island, nearly 5000 miles away in ...
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Iguanas on Fiji likely floated nearly 5,000 miles from North America on vegetation rafts | CNN
Iguanas on Fiji likely floated nearly 5,000 miles from North America on vegetation rafts | CNN ...
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Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
possibly composed of uprooted trees or plants. For decades, scientists have debated how Fiji’s iguanas arrived. Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted 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 ...
The New York Times16d
These Iguanas Got Carried Away and Ended Up 5,000 Miles From Home
By Asher Elbein For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an ... use for hitching a ride across oceans on uprooted trees or tangles of plants — has long been recognized ...