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This discovery not only sheds light on the resilience of iguanas but also highlights the broader role of overwater dispersal ...
Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...
A new study tracks down where native iguanas in Fiji and an extinct species from Tonga came from, offering clues about the ecosystems of volcanic islands.
This is the very scenario that prompted environmentalist Jay Westerveld to first coin the term greenwashing in a 1986 essay ...
Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
LAMBERT: The other idea is that Fiji and Iguanas got there much more gradually. Over many generations, iguanas from the Americas might have walked or island-hopped over land bridges that are now ...
Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
which doesn’t fit with earlier theories of the origin of the Fiji iguanas. “When you don’t really know where Brachylophus ...
But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000 mile (8,000 kilometer) odyssey on a raft of floating vegetation — masses of uprooted trees ... the National Academy ...
The research was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The journey from North America to Fiji could have taken a few months, but these desert iguanas ...