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Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
Most iguanas live in the Americas. But scientists have found evidence some floated to Fiji, likely snacking on their raft ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4d
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 humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s ...
Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 mile voyage on a raft of floating vegetation to get to Fiji. Researchers have long ...
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 ...
ZME Science on MSN3d
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 ...
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...
Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of South America.
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