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New Study Suggests That Prehistoric Iguanas Rafted 5,000 Miles Across The Pacific From North America Before Landing On Fiji
And researchers also suspect that rafting facilitated iguanas’ migration ... early iguana in North America.” As such, rafting seems like the most likely possibility. And the study authors ...
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Iguanas Floated a Whopping 5,000 Miles From North America to Fiji on Rafts of Plants in a Record-Setting Trip, Study Suggests
Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...
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Did you know that iguanas undertook one of the longest known overwater migrations from America to Fiji?
Scarpetta and his team’s study adds new information to the rafting theory by focusing on the genetic history of Fijian iguanas. By studying genetic samples from 14 different iguana species ...