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Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
A new analysis conducted by biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of San Francisco (USF) ...
At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...
Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...
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 ...
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...
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 ...
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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.
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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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