Land Bridges Linking Ancient India and Eurasia Were 'Freeways' for Biodiversity Exchange

Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 13:40 in Earth & Climate

For about 60 million years during the Eocene epoch, the Indian subcontinent was a huge island. Having broken off from the ancient continent of Gondwanaland, the Indian Tectonic Plate drifted toward Eurasia.

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