Caribbean incursion into Amazon sparked a flurry of life, with lessons for the future

Mongabay
May 24, 2022, 9:42 pm209 ptsTrending
Scientists already knew that where the western Amazon rainforest sits today was once a vast wetland, almost four times the size of Texas and periodically flooded by pulses of seawater. Now, a new study posits that the source of these pulses was most likely the Caribbean Sea, and that there was another — later…

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