Giant animals lived in Amazonian mega-wetland

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 09:31 in Earth & Climate

A land of giants. This is the best definition for Lake Pebas, a mega-wetland that existed in western Amazonia during the Miocene Epoch, which lasted from 23 million to 5.3 million years ago. The Pebas Formation was the home of the largest caiman and gavialoid crocodilian ever identified, both of which were over ten meters […]

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