#dispersal — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dispersal, aggregated by home.social.
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Holoplanktonic #gastropods (#pteropods and #heteropods) are major components of modern Indo–West Pacific (IWP) #plankton yet their #fossil record in this region remains sparse. Expanding the spatial and temporal coverage of fossil data is essential for reconstructing #dispersal pathways of pelagic fauna within the IWP and understanding the origins of present-day #diversity https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21046
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Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the world to colonize Fiji. Researchers find that Fiji iguanas are most closely related to the North American desert iguana — evidence of the longest known transoceanic dispersal of any land animal.