By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The ...
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 ...
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.
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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 humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s Mexico to Fiji on rafts made of vegetation.
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...
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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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