Simon Scarpetta
Appearances
Short Wave
The Iguanas That Rafted To Fiji
From somewhere in the Americas all the way across the Pacific, you know, through the doldrums of the equator, through the southern equatorial current, and then made their way to Fiji. That's Simon Scarpetta, a biologist at the University of San Francisco.
Short Wave
The Iguanas That Rafted To Fiji
Well, a couple of reasons. We didn't really know how the Fijian iguanas were related to other iguanas. And then we also didn't really know how old they were.
Short Wave
The Iguanas That Rafted To Fiji
The iguanas that live on Fiji were most closely related to a group of iguanas that I knew very well from the United States called desert iguanas.