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At night, the forests are eerily quiet |
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Only a handful of bats made it here,the only mammals to do so, |
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and there are far fewer birds |
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In the absence of ground predators, |
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invertebrates evolved into monsters |
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This millipede is one of the biggest of its kind, |
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running almost a foot long |
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Its diet of rotten vegetation may have sustained its ancestors on their long journeys to these distant shores |
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But how did they get here? |
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Perhaps more surprising, |
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two species of frog also made it to Fiji |
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Surprising because adult frogs quickly die in saltwater |
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But the ancestor of this frog may have arrived here as a tadpole |
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Tadpoles normally need pools of freshwater to develop in, |
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but these actually mature inside the egg |
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So, on long journeys, these eggs would have been like little survival capsules |
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But the question remains - how did they ever reach these islands? |
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Maybe the same way as Fiji's most intriguing castaway of all |
