Reconstructing a vanished bird community from the Ice Age
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 - 17:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Visit Peru's Talara Tar Seeps today and you'll see a desert, but 15,000 years ago, the area was grassland and forest, roamed by dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. If you had gone for a walk in the Talara during the last ice age, what birds would you have heard singing?