“We found that the Fiji iguanas are most closely related to the North American desert iguanas, something that hadn’t ...
The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.
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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 ...
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...
By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The ...
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Americas to Fiji: Iguanas took longest-ever 5,000-mile ocean Uber 34 million years agoFiji iguanas, an endangered reptile found only on the remote islands of Fiji and Tonga (part of Oceania). How did they get here, thousands of miles from any mainland? For decades, scientists have ...
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