Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 10:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have discovered that the Amazon river, and its transcontinental drainage, is around 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago.

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