Comments on: Fiji: New Iguana Species Discovered

By: Dj Plasmic Nebula

Dj Plasmic Nebula — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:00:49 +0000

wow, these rule. Their so beautiful.. I like the 2nd one.:)

cute.

I would love to see a 5ft Iguana

By: BrownHyena

BrownHyena — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:50:42 +0000

I think the explaination is much simpler. The ancestors of the iguanas just lived in a wide range of Pangea before is broke apart.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:21:08 +0000

I always have to wonder about the time line for islands. Millions of years is quite a long time for some islands to form and stay without something causing their demise. Are we sure it wasn’t the other way around? If the island was suppose to be there that long, there’s no reason that the iguanas didn’t migrate along with the Polynesians, finally making it to the Galapagos islands. From there the swim is nothing for them (almost surfing most of it).

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:25:43 +0000

Is it 8,000 miles or kilometers? Anyway it’s an astounding distance, and it’s kind of ironic that modern Science can entertain the possibility that these marvelous iguanas could endure such a trip on a raft —with WHAT supplies??— but the idea of a living large unknown primate living in North America is preposterous.

Then again, the reason Science comes up with the raft idea is simple: the iguanas are there, their existence is undisputable, and now you have to figure out how they got from here to there. After Bigfoot’s existence is confirmed, I believe many wild theories of how it got to the New World will be proposed, but once Science accepts Bigfoot as real, those theories won’t seem so preposterous to begin with.