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Americas to Fiji: Iguanas took longest-ever 5,000-mile ocean Uber 34 million years ago
The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.
After a 5,000-mile float, these iguanas probably set an ocean record
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
“If you had to pick a vertebrate to survive a long trip on a raft across an ocean, iguanas would be the one,” said study author Simon Scarpetta from the University of San Francisco, in an email. Many ...
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Some 31 million years ago, these iguanas rafted over 5,000 miles of ocean
The Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus ... Genetic analysis suggests that the two lineages diverged between 31 ...
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Iguanas floated to Fiji millions of years ago on an unprecedented raft journey, scientists say
But for long distance travel, the Fiji iguanas can’t be touched ... While sailors today can take advantage of favorable winds ...
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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 Suggests
Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...
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How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji
By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS. The ...