Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
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 ...
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
But for long distance travel, the Fiji iguanas can’t be touched ... They may have journeyed by land and sea from America via ...
New analysis suggests that Fiji iguanas landed on the Pacific islands after voyaging 5,000 miles from the western coast of ...
including dispersal through Antarctica or across the Bering land bridge. Understanding this type of water dispersal could offer new insights into how other species have colonized isolated areas ...
Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it were floodplains pocked with bogs and ponds that may have restricted ...
But for long distance travel, the Fiji iguanas can't be touched ... They may have journeyed by land and sea from America via the Bering Land Bridge and on through Indonesia and Australia or down along ...