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.