A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — ...
Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
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 ...
Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
Most iguanas live in the Americas. But scientists have found evidence some floated to Fiji, likely snacking on their raft ...
LAMBERT: The other idea is that Fiji and Iguanas got there much more gradually. Over many generations, iguanas from the ...
A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific ... get populated by plants and animals, including humans, often leading ...
Scarpetta conducted this research during his National Science Foundation ... can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along with it. To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers ...
Scarpetta conducted this research during his National Science Foundation ... can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along with it. To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers ...