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Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on floating vegetation.

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often endemic wildlife. Isolated for millions of years, the islands have given rise to ...

As they began comparing the data to that of the Fiji iguanas, the scientists found that these animals were most closely related to iguanas in the genus Dipsosaurus. Within that genus, the most ...

Fiji has introduced the world's first 'happy hour for the environment', encouraging visitors to swap cocktails for ...

Iguanas colonized Fiji after surviving an 8,000-kilometre sea voyage — the longest known oceanic migration by any land-dwelling vertebrate 1. Animals that can’t fly or swim have a hard time ...

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Major weather events, such as hurricanes or floods, can dislodge vegetation and carry animals along with it. To determine when iguanas arrived in Fiji, researchers analyzed the genes of 14 living ...