Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji, genetic analysis indicates
Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long-distance travel,
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, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the chuckwallas in the American Southwest.
Iguanas likely crossed Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip - Iguanas may have pulled off a 5000 ...
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...
Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas – thousands of miles and one giant ocean away from the collection of remote ...
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...
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