Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...
Genomic analysis suggests that the ancestors of lizards on Fiji today rafted from North America some 30 million years ago.
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 ...
With the new analysis, a South American origin can be ruled out. And because the Fiji Islands emerged from the sea also about ...
At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...
There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central ...
Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...