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#dispersal — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dispersal, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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 doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21046

  2. 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.

    #science #iguanas #dispersal

    news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/17/i