Reptile fossils offer clues about elevation history of Andes Mountains
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 12:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
On an arid plateau in the Andes Mountains of southern Bolivia, a Case Western Reserve University researcher flagged what turned out to be the fossil remains of a tortoise nearly five feet long—a find indicating this highland was likely less than a kilometer above sea level 13 million years ago.