Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
New research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft of ...
Orlando Sentinel14 天
To kill an iguana: Is it really legal to just walk around and shoot them?
“When you’re using an air gun, the shot has to be a shot to the head,” said Tom Portuallo, owner of Iguana Control, a company whose contractors all use air guns. “It’s got to be one shot ...
CNN14 天
Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the Americas ... according to an October 1998 study. At least 15 green iguanas appeared on the beaches of Anguilla in ...
CNN14 天
How did iguanas get to Fiji? Chances are, they floated nearly 5,000 miles on vegetation rafts
Previous theories suggested that an extinct species of iguana rafted from the Americas ... according to an October 1998 study. At least 15 green iguanas appeared on the beaches of Anguilla in ...
6abc News16 天
'It doesn't get more Florida than this': Man turns iguana eggs into breakfast
"That's where this was born," Johnson said, laughing over the grill. The green iguana, native to Central and South America, has become an invasive species in South Florida. These reptiles are ...
ZME Science16 天
Some 31 million years ago, these iguanas rafted over 5,000 miles of ocean
Adding to the challenge, an invasive species—the green iguana (Iguana iguana, kind of anticlimactic) )—has recently established a foothold on the islands. Unlike Fiji’s native iguanas ...
The Independent17 天
Iguanas likely crossed Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
Many Fijian iguana species are endangered, and an invasive green iguana roams the islands today, said study author Robert Fisher of the United States Geological Survey. Figuring out where these ...