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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 ...
The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely ...
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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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New Study Suggests That Prehistoric Iguanas Rafted 5,000 Miles Across The Pacific From North America Before Landing On FijiA genetic analysis of the world's iguanas may have just solved an enduring mystery of how the creatures ended up in Fiji.
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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 from ...
Related: Labord's chameleon — the color-changing lizard that drops dead in 4 months Previously, some biologists posited the ...
The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.
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