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The Fiji iguanas are an outlier All told, there are over 2,100 species in the suborder Iguania, a large group that also includes animals such ... was supported by a National Science Foundation ...

Their epic journey to what is now Fiji marks the longest ... published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Overwater travel for both animals and plants isn’t unique ...

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 ...

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 ...

But for long distance travel, the Fiji iguanas can’t be touched ... Overwater dispersal is the main way newly formed islands get populated by plants and animals, including humans, often leading to the ...

Overwater dispersal is the main way newly formed islands get populated by plants and animals ... of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the arrival of the ancestors of the Fiji ...

iguanas sailed 5,000 miles from western North America and settled in Fiji. It’s not uncommon for iguana species to hop a natural raft and drift to a new island, but according to new research published ...

The team’s research was published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “The lineage of Fiji iguanas split ... reason to conserve the animals that have made it to today.

This would be the largest transoceanic voyage known to have been performed by any land animal with a spine ... Yet somehow there are four living species in Fiji and Tonga, along with one extinct ...

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 ...