Isthmus of Panama (GABI)

Smithsonian Tropical research Institute
April 10, 2015
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After the Isthmus of Panama formed, animals and plants could move back and forth between continents, the Great American Biological Interchange. Smithsonian scientists are debating when this took place. (Smithsonian Tropical research Institute)

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