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Iguanas “Rafted” 8,000 Kilometers From North America To Fiji – A Record For Land Vertebrates
The arrival of iguanas in the South Pacific can only be explained, a team of biologists have argued, if they caught a lift on ...
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Going wild in Antarctica
Gentoo penguins make their way to the ocean on Brown Bluff, a basalt tuya located on the Tabarin Peninsula of northern Antarctica ... especially on land. It was quite incredible to see them ...
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Americas to Fiji: Iguanas took longest-ever 5,000-mile ocean Uber 34 million years ago
The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.
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The geography of Antarctica
It changes each year because the ice sheet that covers the land is continually ... 1.3 million years ago. Some animals have adapted to the freezing conditions in Antarctica. For example, there ...
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How Antarctica has become the enduring climate change bellwether
Many of the animal ecosystems in Antarctica may be affected by climate ... This can be especially harmful because land-based marine mammals, such as penguins and seals, "provide an important ...