A Forgotten Continent From 40 Million Years Ago May Have Just Been Rediscovered

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A Forgotten Continent From 40 Million Years Ago May Have Just Been Rediscovered
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A low-lying continent that existed some 40 million years ago and was home to exotic fauna may have 'paved the way' for Asian mammals to colonize southern Europe, new research suggests.

The age of these sites was revised based on current geological data, and the team reconstructed paleogeographic changes that transpired in the region, which has a"complex history of episodic drowning and re-emergence".

Then a combination of falling sea levels, growing Antarctic ice sheets and tectonic shifts connected the Balkanatolia continent to Western Europe, between 40 to 34 million years ago.adventure westward and invadeAdding to that record, Licht and colleagues also discovered fragments of a jawbone belonging to afossil site in Turkey, which they dated to around 38 to 35 million years ago.

This southern pathway to Europe across Balkanatolia was perhaps more favorable for adventurous animals than traversing higher-latitude routes through Central Asia which at the time were drier, cooler, desert steppes, Licht and colleagues also suggest.

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