News Headline
Was the Amazon once an ocean?
Source
Science (AAAS)
Publication Date
2017-05-03
The Amazon rainforest is a treasure trove of biodiversity, containing 10% of the planet’s species in its 6.7 million square kilometers. How it got to be that way has been fiercely disputed for decades. Now, a new study suggests that a large section of the forest was twice flooded by the Caribbean Sea more than 10 million years ago, creating a short-lived inland sea that jump-started the evolution of new species. But the new evidence still hasn’t convinced scientists on the other side of the debate.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/was-amazon-once-ocean