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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 ...
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How Iguanas Crossed the Pacific to Fiji: A Tale of Survival and EvolutionThe presence of iguanas in Fiji has puzzled scientists for years. Unlike other Pacific islands, Fiji is home to two unique ...
For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species ...
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Iguanas Floated 5,000 Miles to Colonize Fiji Millions of Years AgoLearn more about Fiji’s iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 34 million years ago.
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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.
A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended ...
A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended ...
Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of South America.
Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from the Southwestern United States to the Caribbean and parts of South America. So how could a handful of reptilian transplants have ...
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