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"You could imagine some kind of cyclone knocking over trees where there were a bunch of iguanas and maybe their eggs, and then they caught the ocean currents and rafted ... Labord's chameleon — the ...
Iguanas on rafts floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji, study finds. The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today ...
A Fijian crested iguana resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the South Pacific. The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended from ancestors that ...
Ancient iguanas rafted nearly 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from North America to Fiji, research suggests. The journey, which occurred about 34 million years ago, may be the longest ...
Iguanas on the remote islands of Fiji may appear to live chill lives, but according to new research they had to work for it: by floating across thousands of miles of ocean on vegetation in the ...
The ancestors of Fiji’s iguanas, such as the Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis, shown here), may have arrived in the islands by floating across the Pacific Ocean on vegetation over ...