Oceanic dispersal in biology, where terrestrial species migrate by sea from one landmass to another, is often achieved by rafting on mats of tangled vegetation—the outcome of which is called a rafting event.
Similarly, skinks of the related genera Mabuya and Trachylepis apparently both floated across the Atlantic from Africa to South America and Fernando de Noronha, respectively, during the last 9 Ma.
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These iguanas have been hypothesized to have evolved from New World iguanas that rafted 10,000 km west across the Pacific Ocean with the aid of the South Equatorial Current.