Caribbean frogs started with a single, ancient voyage on a raft from South America
...zed the Caribbean islands likely hitched a ride on floating mats of vegetation called flotsam, which is the method typically used by land animals to travel across salt water. "Some rafts of flotsam, if they are washed out of rivers during storms and caught in ocean currents, can be more than a mile across an......in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the f...h Florida were able to identify extensive lines of floating Sargassum in the western Gulf of Mexico in the summer of 2005. "This appears to be the first report...