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Some 31 million years ago, these iguanas rafted over 5,000 miles of oceanFiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...
Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.
The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.
Scientists studying these creatures have often asked how they managed to get from their native lands in the Americas, to the ...
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